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This work is intended to supply a want which almost 
every parishioner must have experienced—viz., that of an 
original and authentic history of the localities and institutions 
of his own immediate neighbourhood. It is but little more 
than a compilation, the author having preferred to bring 
together the scattered fragments of local history, and to pre¬ 
sent them to the reader in their unvarnished and original 
form, rather than to add another volume to the host of cursory 
and superficial guide-books. 

In all cases the information has been derived from the most 
authentic sources. The MSS. in the British Museum illus¬ 
trative of topographical and genealogical history have been 
carefully searched, as well as the works issued by the Record 
Commission: neither have local traditions been disregarded, 
for they are the records of an unlettered people. But by 
far the most interesting portion of the ancient parochial 
history has been collected from those valuable documents, 
the ancient Court Rolls of the Manor, to which the author 
has been afforded access through the obliging courtesy of 
Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., of Taplow Court, Lord of the Manor of 
Bray, and the kindness of his steward, Frederick Ward, Esq., 
of Maidenhead. The slightest perusal of the work will reveal 
the extent of the obligation due to them for this favour. The 
most important articles derived from these and other ancient 
sources have been retained, as much as possible, in their 



Yin 


PREFACE. 


original form; and although, perhaps, not quite so intelligible 
to the general reader, they are, nevertheless, in this condition 
far more valuable to the historian and antiquary than any 
translation. 

The greatest care has been taken in the selection of the 
genealogical illustrations from the Court Rolls, eveiy extract 
having been carefully compared with the original. The 
families principally chosen are those from whom estates appear 
to have derived their names, or vice versa. Hence the volume 
will be found to constitute a register of the principal families 
and landholders of Bray, from a period long anterior to the 
adoption of Church Registers. 

The author has great pleasure in publicly acknowledging 
the kind assistance rendered him in the compilation of 
this work, which has occupied his spare time for three years, 
by John Hibbert, Esq.; Rev. J. E. Austen Leigh; J. J. 
Coney, Esq.; J. Terry, Esq.; R. A. Ward, Esq.; Frederick 
R. Partridge, Esq., of Lynn Regis; Mr. W. H. Wood well; 
and the Rev. Henry Curtis Cherry, Rector of Burghfield, 
Berks, who has not only revised and improved the pedigrees 
in the larger edition, but also contributed much valuable 
and interesting matter to the work at large. 


Charles Kerry. 


ftlaiior Sc Inin&trti of Brag. 


T HE Manor of Bray is co-extensive with the Parish and 
Hundred, and includes the following subordinate Manors: 

1. The manor of Creswells, alias Philiberts, or Philberts. 

2. The manor of Lowbrooks, Lollebrooks, or Lillybrooks. 

3. The manor of Foxleys. 

4. The manor of Stroud, alias Shiplake, alias Stavertons. 

5. The manor of Cruchfield, or Lord’s Lands. 

The following are also reputed manors :— 

1. Hendons, or Hyvynden’s, 

2. Moors, or Mores. 

3. Ockholt, or Ockwells. 

4. Ives. 

5. Shoppenhangers, or Shobenhangers. 

As early as a.d. 942, the principal manor seems to have 
been vested in the Crown, for in that year Edmund the Saxon 
King granted the meadow of Hockesham by charter to the 
Monastery of Abingdon; and for this meadow each suc¬ 
ceeding abbot did homage to the King at the manorial court 
of Bray. 

SURVEY OE BRAY MANOR IN DOOMSDAY BOOK. 

“In Brai HD.—Bex ten’ in dnio Brai. Rex. E. tenuit. 

Ibi xviij. hidae. & n geldauer. T’ra. e-In dnio sunt iij. 

car’. & lvj. vilii & vij. bord. cu xxv. car’. Ibi. iiii. servi. & 
aeccia. & iij. milites. & L.ac p a ti. Silva de. lx. pore’ Raili- 
bald’ ten’. I. hida quae ptin’ acciae. & ibi ht. I. car’ Tot 
T.R.E. vaib. xxv. lib. & post, xviii. lib. Modo: xvii. lib.”— 
Doomsday , vol. i. fol. 57. 2. Decord C. 

[Translation. —“In Bray Hundred. The King holds Bray 
in demesne. King Edward (Confessor) held it. There are 

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MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


18 hides, and none are assessed. The land is- In the 

demesne are 3 caracutes [orploughlands, each about 25 acres), 
and 56 villeins (serfs, or workmen of the manor), and t cot¬ 
tagers (or copyholders) with 25 caracutes. There are 4 slaves, 
and a church, and 3 knights (military tenants, or tenants 
in chief), and 50 acres of meadow. Woods sufficient for 
60 pigs. Rainbald holds one hide (about 100 acres ) which 
belongs to the church (see ‘ Rectorf and c Queen Lease?), 
and there he hath one caracute. Total value in the time of 
King Edward, 25£., and afterwards 18^., now 111 .'' (The 

Doomsday survey was made between a.d. 1081 and 1086.)] 
The following report of the manor of Bray was returned by 
the Commissioners appointed by Edward I. (circa 1272) to 
survey the royal demesnes after the Barons' wars in the 
preceding reign:— 


Rotuli Hundredorum. 

“ Hundr' de Bray. 

“ Jur' illius hundri de feodis dni Reg' & tenentib 3 ejus &c. 

“ Qd Mich Fuse tenet dimid virg' t're in man 9 io de Bray, 
de Templariis de Bustlesham que solebat ten 9 i de dno Rege in 
capite et secta fac 9 e pdcm man 9 iu. 

“ D' t'ris tenenciu. de antiquo dnico corone, &c. Dht qd 
Henr' Lovel tenet una hid t 9 re in Crussefeld que solebat esse 
vaccaria dni Reg' ptinens ad man 9 iu p 9 dcm tpe Reg' Henr' 
patris, &c. Dht eciam qd Heremita de Losfeld tenet tres acr' 
t 9 re in eode man 9 io de dono dni Reg' H. pris Reg' nuc. 

“ Dht etiam qd Hugo de Sco Phileberto tenet duas hid t 9 re 
in p 9 dco man 9 io p serjanciam ad portand cu dno Rege unu 
buseellu vini & solebat ptin 9 e ad dcm man 9 iu ut in sectis 
tallagiis & aliis rel >3 S 3 , modo nich reddit man 9 io S 3 qualit 9 p 
que & a quo tpe nich sicut. 

“ D' sect antiquis consuet’ dno Regi substract' &c. 

t( Dht qd dns Rex solebat hre am 9 ciamenta de hoib 3 abhis 
de Cirencestr' p ass' panis & c 9 visie fract', et solebat dci holes 
vigilare & pannagiu dare ^ porcis suis in foresta Reg' & tpe 
Henr' de Fermlegh balli de Bray anno Regni R.H. xl. fuifc 
subtractu. It. Henr’ Wade subt a xit sectam suam ad hundr' 
de Bray p concessione dni Reg' H. pris &c. Et unde carta 
suam habet ad t'm vite. It. Hugo de la Hull tenet quodda 
ten in p 9 dco man 9 io p cartas regu p quo antec' sui solebant 
semel p annu venire ad die franci plegii ad Hundr' de Bray & 
fac e sectam & ^sequi hundr', & modo se subtrahit a tpe Reg' 
H. pris Reg' nuc set nesciut quo waranto. 



MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


3 


“ D’ hiis aliis qui a Rege clam’ lire returnu, &c. 

“ Dht qd abbas de Cirecestre clam’ tire assias panis & c 9 visie 
et habet am 9 ciamenta de hoib 3 suis n5 habet furcas & nesciut 
quo war*. 

“ D’ hiis qui de novo appropriav 9 int sibi liberas chacias, &e. 
Dht qd Jordan’ forestarius habet chaciam de antiquo ad le- 
pores & vulpes S 3 nesciut quo waranto. 

“ D’ purprestur fcis sup dnm Rege, &c. 

“ Dht qd priorissa de Bromhale cepit tpe Reg’ H. pris &c. 
una purpresturam sup dnicu boseu dni Reg’ & coihunia h5inu 
dni Reg’ in Bray ad magnu dapnu & nocumentu totius patrie 
ubi assartavit ducentas querc’ et amplius. It. dht qd eps 
Wyncestr’^ Almaricus et alii epi hoc manutenet cepit unarn 
magnam purprestura que vocat ‘ Pillingbere’ claudendo ipam 
p forte sepe et feras dni Reg’ intrantes capit sup Rege ubi 
dns Rex solebat hre liberam chaciam suam et ubi bestie 
solebant pascere et hoc ad nocumentu tocius patrie a tpe Reg’ 
H’. pris &c. S 3 nesciut quo waranto. Et eode modo cepit 
pies purpresturas apud Warefeld ad dapnu bestia 3 dni Reg’ & 
totius patrie. 

“ D’ hiis qui claih libertates &c. 

“ Dht qd abbas de Waltham qui nuc est levavit furcas in 
Heywode de hoc anno et suspendit ibi quandam muliere contra 
libertate dni Reg’ & sine waranto.” 

“ Hund’ de Weregrave.” 

u D’ sect’ ant’ subtract’. 

“ It. h 5 Ies de man 9 io de Weregrave solebant fac 9 e sectam 
ad liundr’ de Bray, que subtracta est ad hundr’ de Weregrave 
S 3 nesciut a quo tpe nec quo waranto.” 


Srenesc&ate, &r., of tf)c JUanor of 3Srag. 

1. Jordan de London, in 1206 received from K. John a 
grant of the farm and mill of Bray.— {Rot. Chart .) 

2. Walter de Bine and Stephen de Brakel, in 1206, re¬ 
ceived from Henry III. the manors of New and Old Windsor, 
and of Cookham and Bray with the appurt 3 .—[Treasury 
Rolls.) 

3 . In the reign of Henry III., the manor was held by the 
inhabitants, at a yearly ferm. In 1244, the constable of 
Windsor Castle was ordered to take into the hands of the 
king, the manors of Cookham and Bray, “ qufe sunt in man- 
bus kominum prssdictorum maneriorum,” and to make all 

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MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


necessary distraints in order that they might pay the ac¬ 
customed rent into the King’s treasury.—(Madox’s Firma 
Burgi , p. 54. 1726.) 

4. Godefride de Liston had a grant of the man 8 , of Cook- 
ham and Bray with divers others from Hen. III. in 1251.— 
[Cal. Rot. Pat.) Died seised of the manor in 1261, {Inq. P. M.) 

5. Henry de Fermlegh, “ Bailiff of Bray,” 1256.— {Hun¬ 
dred Rolls.) 

6. Richard de Freitmantell received the grant of the 
manors of Cookham and Bray, with the custody of the Seven 
Hundreds. 48 Hen. III. 1259 .—{Cal. R. Pat.) 

7. Aymond Thuremherd received a grant of the man 3 , of 
Cookham and Bray during the King’s pleasure, a.d. 1261.— 
{Abbrev. Treas. Rolls.) 

8. Galfrid’ de Picheford had a grant of the m s . of Bray, 
Cookham, Kennington, &c., in 1272.— [Bo.) 

9. John de London, in 1302, received a grant of the man 8 , 
of Bray and Kennington for 3 years at the same rent as 
GeofFry de Picheford held them.— {Bo.) 

10. Ralph de Waltham was made keeper and seneschal of 
the Seven Hundreds of Cookham and Bray for life in 1311.— 
{Abbrev. Treas. Rolls.) 

11. Robert de Waltham, son of the preceding, appointed 
seueschall of the Seven Hunds. of Cook m . and Bray in 1312. 

12. William de Excester was appointed to the same office 
in 1327.— (Tighe and Davis’s Hist, of Windsor .) 

13. John de Kew held the manor about 1329. An estimate 
of the character of this steward may be best formed from the 
following petition made to the King by the inhabitants of 
Bray and Cookham soon after his flight from the kingdom :— 

“ To our Lord the King and his Council, pray for God’s 
sake his poor subjects of his ancient domain of Bray and 
Cookham:—That as John of Kew, formerly Bailiff of the 
above-named manors, under pretence of his bailiwick assessed 
the good people of the before-named towns for sixty livres of 
silver, to raise men at arms, to their harm and damage,—our 
Lord the King that now is, would dispense them these sixty 
livres received by the Exchequer, according to the judgment of 
our late Lord the King. Being that the said John, under 
colour of his bailiwick, mulcted and imprisoned several persons 
belonging to his bailiwick and neighbouring parts, and they 
remain prisoners; for which misdeed our late Lord the King 
sent his justices, Mr. Robert Wodehouse, Sir Walter de Hah 
dene, and Simon Croisier, to enquire how the said John had 


MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


5 


conducted himself and kept his bailiwick—before which justices 
the said John was convicted by twenty-four of the best men 
in the country of damage done in the said manors to the 
amount of 100 livres, and of several acts approaching to felony; 
which things our late Lord the King would have remedied, but 
the said John fled out of England like one who had been con¬ 
demned—of which the poor subjects of our Lord the King 
entreat redress for God’s sake.” — {Literal translation of an 
entry in the Parliamentary Polls , dated 1330.) 

14. Thomas de Eoxle died seised of the manor of Bray in 
1361. Esch. 34. Ed. III. Made Constable of the Castle, 
Forest, and Parks of Windsor in 1330.—(Tighe and Davis’s 
Windsor .) 

15. John de St. Philibert in 1333 died seised (among many 
others) of the manor of Bray, enfeoffed by him to— {Cal. Inq. 
Mort.) 

16. Walter de Manny. 

17. John Brid, Seneschal, died before 1369.— {Bray Court 
Polls.) 

18. Sir John de Foxle appears to have been in office with 
John Brid, the former receiving a third of the profits of the 
man r . and the latter the remainder.— {B. C. P.) 

19. Sir John de la Lee, Sen 1 , in 1369. In a report of the 

manor appended to the Bray C. Boll 42 Ed. III. (1369) made 
at the appointment of Sir John de la Lee, mention is made of 
the “ Dayhous,” in which two windows and a wardrobe were 
defective, and which John Brid ought to have repaired. The 
two granaries were reported to be in a bad state (John Brid 
had repaired the porch of one of them with plaister and boards), 
as was also the ox-house. A small house called the “ Hey- 
bern” was thrown down by a great wind, as well as the 
“ Chalfhous.” “ Furthermore, the wheat which John Brid 
had sown was of no use nor sufficient in quantity, as the land 
proved,” &c. “ Item die’ qd vetus m 9 emiu de domib 3 infra 

maner’ magno vento prostrat~ quedrn jds dci m 9 emij ad hue 
rein infra maner’, et alia ps ardebat~ per s 9 vient’ manerii 
tempe dicti Jofiis Brid.” 

20. Sir Bernard Brocas, beheaded 1400.— {C. Inq . Mort.) 
In the following year his eldest son, 

21. William Brocas, received from the King the Hundreds 
of Cookham and Bray. — {Bid. Tighe and Dav. Hist, of 
Windsor.) Henry IY. (anno I.) gave to his son Humphry 
D. of Gloucester the man 3 , of Cookham and Bray, in general 
tail.— {Cal. P. Pat.) 


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MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


22. William Coly, Seneschal, 1432.—(. B. C. R.) 

23. William Perkyns, Bailiff for Humphry D. of Glou¬ 
cester, 1447.— (. B. C. R.) 

24. John Norres, Seneschal of the Lordship of Cookham and 
Bray “ for' life,” 144 7. —(J5. C. R.) 

25. Osborne Walyngton, “ Warenner of oure Lordship of 
Cokeham and Bray, with the Wodwardship there, within our 
Countie of Berk, for terme of hys lyfe.”— {Act of Resumption , 
1 Hen. VII. [1485], Rot. Pari.) 

26. William Norres, “Bailiff for the Queen,” 1488.— 

{B. C. R.) 

27. Edmund Norres, and Bobert Bray, Stewards for the 
Queen in 1501.—(. B. C. R.) 

28. Bichard Gyll, Esq. Died 1511. 

Igetf) tfj t bobg of 3&tcjar& (Sxgll squger late 
sergeaunt of tlje Uaktbous tot kgng fi)cnrg tBe FI 
anh also togtf) kgng f^enr. tbe ITEM anb 33aglg of 
tfje bit bttnhrehs of CTokam anb I3rag: tj)e tofhcbe 
Iftfcbarb beceesseb g* bu hag of August, tjje gere of our 
loth gob Jiil. 3 VJt. M o tojjoie soulegfm baue meg.”— 

{Inscrip, in Shottesbrook Church , Berks.) 

29. Bichard Weston, “now Chief Seneschal,” 1523.— 

(B. C. R.) 

30. John Norres, Steward, and Thomas Brown, deputy, 
1601-11.— {B. C. R.) 

31. Henry Joules, Esq., Chief Steward, 1614.— (B, C. R.) 

32. Humphry Newbury, Steward’s deputy, 1617.— 

{B. C. R.) 

33. John Whitfield, “Steward,” 1654.—( C . R.) 

Stnrient ^Tenures* 

Many of the landholders in the parish in early times were 
socage tenants, holding their farms on condition of performing 
a certain amount of labour on the lord’s lands, as a compensa¬ 
tion for pecuniary rent. This tenure is termed in the rolls 
“ Werklond”— i.e., work-land. In some cases, however, a 
small pecuniary rent was paid, in addition to a prescribed 
amount of labour. 

Anno 1288.—“At the last court, John de Shobenhangre 
affirmed that he was not bound to do a certain work with one 
plough called “ Garserth,” placing himself on the result of an 
enquiry by which it is now proved that he ought to do the 
same.— {C. R.) 


MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


7 


The term “ Garserth” or Graserth” signifies ploughing or 
“ grazing the earth ” 

Anno 1340. —“ William, the son of John de Shortford, is 
accused of withdrawing from the Queen the service of one man 
for a day to make hay in ‘ Bedmed/ and the service of one 
man for two days to reap corn, the value of the service 
depending upon the customary measurement. 

Anno 1336. —It was reported by the bailiff that William le 
Whyte, of “Wyke” (Braywick), was dead, who held of the 
lord one messuage and ten acres of land with the appurt. in 
Bray, by the service called “ A kerman” —viz., 2 s . §d. rent, 
and the service belonging to that tenure; by whose death, a 
pig, value 12 d. was due to the lord for a heriot. At this time 
came William, his son and heir, and desired the holding afore¬ 
said as “ Hednatsman” (the keeper of the cattle or calves of 
the lord), and it was granted to him to hold by the aforesaid 
services, and he did homage, and paid 2s. 6d. for his relief. 

Anno 7 Edw d III. (1334).—Preceptu fuit bedell atP 5es 
tenentes de Steremanneslond ad r d dne Regie quare non vene- 
runt ad p 9 car* dee dne R* nisi cu i h5ie vibi tenet~ veni 9 cu 
ii hoib 3 .”—(5. C. R.) 

Another service, termed “ Hurmannis” occurs in the same 
roll, which signifies the duty of stacking or making into ricks 
the hay and corn of the demesne.— (See Manor of Philiberts.) 


JSUbenue* 

The Revenue of the manor in the 14th century was derived 
from two principal sources—the one from feudal obligations, 
as licences for contracts, lieriots, reliefs, wardships, fines, and 
the proceeds of the Courts Leet and Baron, &c.; and the 
other from the various rents issuing from the demesne— e.g. } 
pannage, agistment, fisheries, “ grasavese,” and “ cayage.” 

Anno 1338.—“ Sum of the amerciaments, fines, fish g , 
river tolls, reliefs, and wind-fall-wood, 14 1 2 s 3 d .” 

Boat Tolls. —In 1333, Reginald Belen, collector of the 
boat tolls at Little Oakley, paid the sum of 8 shill, for 16 
boats, which had passed in the course of the year. According 
to the value of money at this period (a good horse sold for 
13 s , a good ox 10 s , a good cow 10 s , a pig I s — B. C. R.), the 
toll was most exorbitant, and well might the men of London 
complain of the exactions, when, in the year 1377, a new lock 
was erected, “ which men call Hameldon Lok.”— (Rot. Pari. 


8 


MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


50 Ed. Ill) The same complaint was made against the tolls 
demanded at Maidenhead Bridge. 

Wharfage. —“ 1373. John Cur gave to the lord 4 shill, 
per ann. for the wharfage at Okie.” 

Pannage. —“ 1335. Received from the pannage of pigs this 
year” 54 s ll d . “ Fines of pannage, 13 s 5 d ” “ Agistment of 

pigs in Altwood, 32 s 3 d .” 

Cayage.— “ 1370. Rec d . from cayage of Okie this year 10 s . 

Fisheries. —The fisheries were let half-yearly to various 
individuals. “Anno 24 Ed. I. 1296— 

“ vij s ii d Johe Piscar. & Galfro Ubecot pro. j. tramall. 

vij 6 ii d Willmo: le Knyt, & Roberto de aqua pro i. 

tramall. 

xviij d Willmo : le Knyt pro Stagno de Acle. 
fijs v ij d Job : Spignell pro j. tramall. 
ij s — Wills : Capon pro minufca piscaria. 
ijs — Wills : Lensamit pro eodm. 
ij 8 — John le Pyk pro eodm. * 

vj d Thom: Baldewyne pro piscar: de Dedepole 
(Tadpool). 

iij d Willmo le Pyk pro piscar: de Lethepole. 
xij d Thom: atte Hach pro minut: piscar pro di: 
annu:”— (B. C. R.) 

,3*- Value of Fish in 1369.—“Robert atte Water, and John le 
Ster, were summoned to shew why they had fished in c Rey- 
lake J and taken 10 'pykes* and 1 f trowte/ price ii s vii d .— 
(B. C. R.) 

Windfall-wood .—Anno 1334. “Cablic: de Altewode vend: 
divers: hoib 8 : viii 8 iiii d .” “ Cablic: de Crembourne vend: pro- 
porco: xiiij d .” 

Headsilver gathered in 1599.—“From Bray Towne and Alt- 
woode, 2 s 6 d ; Twitchin Ende, 2 s 2 d ; Stroode, 2 8 6 d ; Fifield, 
2 s 6 d ; Hollyport, 2 s 2 d ; Water Okeley, I s 0 d ; East Okelev, 
3 s 4 d .” 

EXTRACTS FROM A SURVEY OF THE MANOR AND PARISH OF 
BRAY, DATED 1608. 

“ Queen Leaze is several yearely from the Sunday called 
Quadragesima unto the first day of August, by which time, 
only the collector hath the pasturing of eight beasts, and the 
farmer of the parsonage hath the pasturage of twelve kine, one 
bull, six oxen, and two horses,” 

Also we do present that within the mete and bound afore¬ 
said do lie the manor of Foxleys now being the Lord Sandes, 


MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


9 


the manor of Shopenhanger, the manor of Lowbrook, the 
manor of Stroud, the m r of Ockells, the manor of Philiberts 
alias Cresswells, the man r of Hindens, part of the m r of Hey- 
woods, part of the m r of Lord's-lands, and part of the m r of 
Cruchfields and Hauthorne, now being the land of John 
Hercy, Esq. 

“ Also we do find that there are belonging to the tenants of 
the said m r of B]?ay these commons :—Old Field, containing 
100 acres; a common near Water Okeley, 2^ ac.; East Okeley 
Green,40 ac.; Fifield Green, 12 acres; Stroud Green, 50 ac.; 
Money Row Green, 30 ac.; Holyport Green, 10 ac.; Stert 
Green, 40 ac.; Twychene, 20 acres. 

“ We also find that the parishioners of White Waltham do 
challenge a great part of the King's Majesty's Common, con¬ 
taining by estimation 100 acres, and have made their parti¬ 
cular perambulation upon the same, and Sir John Norrice, 
Kt., hath felled upon the said common to his own use sithence 
the first year of his Majesty's reign certain timber, and 
claimeth the same to appertain to the man r of Heywood. Also 
that the parishioners of Clewar do intrude into the said man r 
to the no. of 40 acres, or thereabouts, in their perambulation. 

“ Sir John Norris holdeth as tenant to the Bp. of Oxford 
the parsonage of the parish of Bray."— [From, a copy of the 
Original Survey, which was formerly kept in the Auditor’s Office , 
Falace-yard, Westminster .) 

The reves used to repair the parish bridges out of the quit 
rents they collected for the King. It was an ancient custom 
in the parish of Bray for the rector or his lessee to keep a bull 
for the use of the parish.—( Survey , 1608.) 

“gt Sburbeg of dje JFtanor Of 23rap, with the Rights, Mem¬ 
bers, and Appurtenaunces thereof, lying and being in 
the County of Berks, late Parcell of the possessions of 
Charles Stuart, late King of England, made and 
taken by us whose names are hereunto subscribed, on the 
1st day of Aprill, Anno Domini 1650, by Vertue of a 
Commission graunted upon an Act of the Commons 
assembled in Parliament for sale of the Hono rs , Manors, 
and Lands heretofore belonging to the late King, Queen, 
and Prince. Under the hands and seales of five or more 
of the Trustees in the aforesaid Act named and ap¬ 
pointed. 

“ The Quit Rents due to the Lord of the aforesaid manor 


10 


MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


of Bray, holding of the said manor in ancient demesne, ac¬ 
cording to the customs thereof, and payable at Michaelmas 
only, are, per ann., 57 1 3 s 6 d . 

" The Head Silver paid yearly at the Court Leet for the 
said manor at Lady-day is l 1 0 s 6 d . 

"The Court Barons, Fines, and Amerciaments of Courts, 
Fines upon discents, or Alienation, Heriotts, Wayfes, Strays, 
Ffellons’ goods, Beliefs, Deodands, and all pther proffits and 
perquisites to the aforesaid manor appertaining, we estimate 
com: ann: 6 1 0 s 0 d .* 

" Sum Totall of the aforesaid rents and royalties are, per 
ann 64 1 4 s 3 d . 

“ Court House.— All that messuage or tenement called the 
Court House, lying and being within the parish of Bray, con¬ 
taining two rooms, with a parcell of land thereunto adjoining, 
containing by estimation one acre and a half, valued per ann. 
at thirty-three shillings, four pence, 1 3X5 2 ro 0 per . 

" Queen Lease. —All that piece of parcell of pasture 
ground called by the name of Queen Lease, lying and being 
within the Parish of Bray within the said manor, bounded 
with the common called Old Field on the south and east, a 
common called Wickjield on the west, and a meadow called 
Fforelease , north, containing in all, by admeasurement, three 
score and six acres, and one rood—value per ann: four score 
and eight pounds. 

" Memorandum .—The aforesaid pasture ground, with the 
appurtenances, were by the late King James, by his letters 
patent under the Great Seal, bearing date the ffirst day of 
May, in the eighth year of his reign, granted to Henry Love¬ 
lace, Bich. Winch, sen r , Thomas Westcott, John Powney, 
George Bishopp, Bobert Mathewe, and William Hawthorne* 
for three score years from the day of the date, under the 
yearly rent of 50 s —viz 1 , at Lady Day and Michaelmas by equal 
portions; but it is worth upon improvement over and above the 
said rent per ann., fourscore and five pounds and ten shill. 

“ Beserved to the Crown by the said grant, all timber-trees, 
wards, marriages, mines, and quarries of the premises. 

"The Leasees are to repair, cleanse, and maintain all 
ditches, banks, and ffences of the premises from time to time, 
and so to leave them. 

"The Leasees may have and take upon the premises 
growing, sufficient Bootes, there and not elsewhere yearly to 
be expended. 

" A provisoe if in case the said annuall rent be behind, or 


MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


11 


unpaid in part or in all, by the space of twenty and eight 
days after either of the said days of payment; then to pay 
and satisfy ( nomine pene ) so much in money as shall at the 
days aforesaid be so in arrear, and to distrain for non-pay¬ 
ment. 

“ The aforesaid premises are tythe free, as having never 
been charged therewith. 

“ There will be twenty years to come in the said grant on 
the first day of May next ensuing. 

“ The aforesaid grant and years therein to come and un¬ 
expired are by assignment vested and settled in Richard 
Winch, Robert Bishopp, Randall Page, Richard Bowyer, 
John Powney, and Rich. Deller, jun r , of Bray aforesaid. 

“ Reprises. —The Reeve of the said manor hath usually 
allowed him for gathering the Lord’s rents, his Quit Rent 
that year he is Reeve—which we value to be worth com : ann : 
40 s . 

“The Beadle for crying the Court Baron and Leet be¬ 
longing to the said manor hath usually allowed him nine 
shillings yearly. 

“ Memorandum. —There is a court Baron and Leet belonging 
to the said manor kept at the yearly court house aforesaid, at 
the will of the Lord. 

“ The said manor and parish is bounded with the manor of 
Clewer on the east; the manor of Folly John and Warfield on 
the south ; the man r of Shottesbrook Heywoods, Ffeenes, and 
Berry on the west; the man r of Cookham on the north¬ 
west, and the parishes of Taplow and Dorney on the north¬ 
east. 

“ The tenants of the said man r are to perform their suit 
and service to the Lord at the Court aforesaid. 

“ The Freeholders which hold of the said manor do usually 
pay to the Lord thereof by way of reliefs (upon death only) 
half a year’s quit rent (and the said freeholders are heriotable, 
and pay upon death his best live good, and in defect thereof, 
his best household good). 

“ There are within the said man r free suitors, to the number 
of forty-four or thereabouts, which pay at the death of every 
free suitor his best living good, and in defect thereof his best 
household good, and also one half year’s quit rent for a relief, 
and nothing upon alienation, as by the presentment of the jury 
appears. 

“ There are no copyholders within the said manor, as the 
jury present. 


12 


MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


“The tenants of the said manor forfeit their estates for 
murders, felonies, and treasons, to the Lord thereof. 

“There are within the said manor divers commons—viz., 
Walter Oakley, containing 3 acres; East Oakley Green, con¬ 
taining 30 acres; Eifield Green, 12 acres; Stroud Green, 50 
acres; Money Row Green, 20 acres; Holyport Green, 6 
acres; Stert Green, 20 acres; Tutchin Green, 10 acres; Old 
Efield, 100 acres; New Lodge, a plaine lying between Bray 
Woods and Bray Nayts, 100 acres; Crutchffield Plaine, 30 
acres; one other plane lying between Bray Woods and the 
manor of Hey wood, 100 acres, which said plain is claimed by 
Sir Edmund Sawyer, Kt., as belonging to his manor of 
Heywoods.” 

[In Jones’s Reports it is stated that he claimed common of 
pasture, and that “ he might Staff-herd there, and derived a 
title by a grant of Rich : I st to the Abbot of Waltham Holy 
Cross in Essex, and shewed the dissolution of the abbey; 
and how the possessions thereof came to the crown, and a 
grant of the said manor came to John Norris, Esq., and so by 
several mesne conveyances brought down a title to himself.” 
— C. K.] 

“ The tenants of which said Manor of Bray have the benefit 
of commoning in the said commons, as having usually had the 
same, and likewise in Windsor Forest. 

“ There are divers common woods belonging to the said 
manor—viz., 

“Bray Naits, containing 250 acres. 

“Bray Woods, containing 200 acres—Altwood, 220 acres; 
but in regard the same lye in the Fforest, we have not sur¬ 
veyed them. 

“ The said court house, bridges, and ponds within the said 
manor were wont to be repaired at the late Kinge’s charges, 
as the jury present. 

“ The said court house, perquisites, and profitts of court are 
not under demise, but in present possession. 

“ There are without the said manor, eleven purprestures, or 
thereabouts, built upon the waste lying within the forest, as by 
the presentment of the jury appears. 

“ The suitors claim as their right, three loads of wood to 
every suithold yearly out of the said Bray-woods, Altwoods, 
and Braynaits. 

“ Queen Lease. —The ffarmer of the rectory of the parish 
of Bray doth claim the common of pasture for one and twenty 
beasts in the said pasture of Queen Lease yearly, and like- 


MANOR AND HUNDRED OE BRAY. 13 

wise two tenements in Bray called Collingbornes and Smythes, 
for seven beasts. 

“ The reeve for the time being hath usually had 9 trees 
yearly out of the said woods, and pasture for 15 beasts in 
the said pasture of Queen Leaze, as by the presentment of the 
jury appears. 

“ The beadle of the said manor hath usually had 9 loads of 
wood for executing his office, four loads whereof to be taken 
out of Bray-woods, and the other 5 out of Altwood. 

“We hear that Nicholas Fortescue hath a grant of the 
Reversion of the said pasture for 31 years. 

“ There are divers Assart Lands within the said manor, 
but the same lying within the Forest, we have not surveyed 
the same.” 

An Abstract of the present Rents, future Improvements , and all 
other Profits of the Manor and Premises. 

£ s. d. 

The rents of assize and Royalties p. an. . 64 4 2 

The demesnes in possession are per an. . 4 3 4 

Sum Totall of the present profits, p. a. £68 7 6 

The improvement of the said demesnes 

per ann.£85 10 0 

Thomas Marsh, Y 
Will: Hawgs, > Surveyors. 

Alex : Rowley, j 

John Wheatley, Deputy Registrar, 

a rentall of the manor of bray, 1650. 


East and Water Oakley. £ s. d, 

William Powney, for all lands holden of the 

man 1 per ann:.296 

The Heirs of Rob* Bishopp for the like, 

per ann.0 12 0 

William Hawthorne for the like, per ann. .10 0 

Thom: Hawthorne.0 3 0 

Alice Fincher, widow.. 016 0 

(“Alice Fincher,widow, from Oakingham, buried 
Feb y 1, 1667.”— Dray Register .) 

Heirs of Robert Hawthorne.0 5 0 

Thomas Perryman , . ..3 10 










14 MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 

£ s. d . 

Richard Jorville.00? 

Walter Martin.033 

Rieh d Winch, Jun r .0 17 

John Lawrence.020 

Richard Lawrence.0 0 5 

Elizabeth Martin.024 

Robert Lawrence.. . 0 9 10J- 

Rieh d Dellar. 0104 

John Hopkins.006 

JohnNoak. ......008 

William Hawthorne, Jun r .0 0 5 

The Heirs of Parrett.0 2 3 

John Page, Gent (of Down Place) ... 3 0 3 

Simon Page.188 


£14 7 2 


Ffifield 

Richard Winch, Gent (Fifield House) . . 0 18 3 

Robert Mayott.12 6 

Edward Pasmore.081 

Barthol: Smith, for land, late Dean & Canons 0 12 0 

Robert Curtis.086 

John Norris.002 

John Smith.0 11 11 

Thomas Pasmore.045 

Simon Beckley.106 

Henry Osborne.021 

Ffrancis Blucke.001 

The Mayor and Aldermen of Reading, for 

Currs and the like.14 6 

Robert Pauling.014 

Simon Peters.007 

Richard Hill, for Lake, late John Peeters 

(probably LaJcen’s) . 0010 


£6 15 7 

Strowd. 

Henry Freeman, per ann :.0 4 8 

The Mayor and Aldermen of Reading, for 

Great Strowd. 1100 

Of them for Little Strowd and other lands 118 8 

The University of Oxford, for Budds . . 0 8 11 
































MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 15 

£ 5 . d. 

Alice Wicks, widow. 0173 

Catherine Huckle.. . . 0 0 7 

John Marriott.038 

Ffrancis Pinnocke.055 

The Heires of Peacocke 0 0 10 

William Keaze.0 18 3 

Richard Barefoot.006 

The Lady Anderson.0 14 0 

John Piumridge.006 

The Pleirs of Tanner.0 0 2 

Sir Edmund Sawyer and con.0 18 

John Lovell.008 

Daniel Wickes ..Oil 


£7 7 2 

Holliport. 

Nicholas Brice. 0166 

The. Fishmongers of London.1 9 10 

The Heir of Westcott.15 6 

For Browning’s late heir.0 6 8 

Tho. Wilcox, Esq. (of Philiberts) .... 0 1 5 

Heirs of Bowyer.002 

Jane Carefw, wid.006 

Andrew Avery.006 

James Stratfield.008 

John Eeles.00] 

John Shepherd ..001 

John Cook.004 

William Lawrence ........ 0 0 3 

John Saston.002 

John Plumridge. ..004 

Nicholas Benfield . . . ..0 14 


f“ Nicholas Binfield, a brother of the" 
Almshouse, being an hundred and 
■J five years of age, was buried the > 

] 28 th of December, 1661 .”—[From 
Bray Church Register.) y 

Thomas Saston..0 0 6 


£4 5 0 

Tutchin. 

Henry Murrey (of Foxleys) ..... 1 16 5 

Bartholomew Smith.0 6 0 


































16 MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


£ s, d . 

Henry Partridge.2 2 7 

Widow Southey.004 

Heyres of Tyler.004 

William Winch.033 

John Winch, Sen r .0 0 2 

Ambrose Atkins and John Stratford, for 

lands late Westcotts. .003 

Ileires of John West.0 2 9 

Widow White.002 

John Mowdy.002 

Widow Mowdy.002 

Xpofer Tow.008 

Humphry Pickford.0 0 2 


£4 13 6 


5 0 3 

1 0 11 
0 17 6 
1 19 4 
0 15 7 
19 4 
0 5 11 
0 0 2 
0 4 11 
0 0 1 


£11 14 4 


Bray Town. 

Gyles Taylor.030 

William Heyne.0 14 4 

Xpofer Bradley ..020 

Widow Tomline.049 

John Wilkes.0 15 10 

Sir Edward Manfield.0 3 8 

Charles Ffisher.005 

John Stratford.003 

John Efisher.001 

Thomas Wells.010 

William Bowyer.004 

Robert Martyn.016 

Benjamin Burgos.032 


Altwood. 

Katharine Baldwin . 
Robert Boyce . . . 

James Smith . . . 

Richard Winch . . 

Humphrey Bowyer . 
Sir Thomas Honeywood 
John Glynn .... 
William Arrow . . 

John Peneisle . . . 

Henry Stokes . . . 









































MANOR AND HUNDRED OE BRAY. 17 

£ s. d. 

Charles Breath.020 

Matthew Pettiver.0 0 3 


£2 12 8 


Braywtcke. 

Richard Powney. 3411 

Thomas Micklem.098 

Heirs of Berrington. 0105 

Dorothy Lovelace.107 

Richard Winch.165 

Robert Bristow.004 

John Winch. ....017 


£6 14 1 


Maidenhead. 

Nicholas Brice.0 1.8 

William West.0 15 

John Spratley. .034 

Heir of Carew Saunders.0 2 2 

Nathaniel Not.0 6 1 

John Grove.014 

Thomas Flaggott. 0010 

Widow Spratley.024 

Richard Powney.016 

John Cockshott.003 

John Bray.001 

George Randoll, for land belonging to Eton 

College.031 

Thomas Russele.021 

Heirs of Sir'Pickernell.0 0 5 

John Ffrize.008 

Heirs of Randell.004 

Nicholas Widmore. 000? 

Henry Stokes.001 

Samuel Rowden.002 

Abell Parkins ..003 

Thomas Winch. ob, 

Robert Austine ..005 

The Heires of Carter.0 2 2 

Thomas Terry.006 

John Smith.006 

c 








































18 


MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 


£ S. d. 

Thomas Lowes, for Kingsgrove .... 0 1 4 

Robert Woodell . ..0 0 2 

John Merry.Oil 

William Silvester.0 0 4 


£1 15 2 ob. 



£ 

s. 

d. 


The Head Silver .. 

1 

0 

6 


Queen Leaze Rent . • . . . 

2 

10 

0 


The Ffour Ffishings ..... 

1 

13 

4 


The xviij cottages holden by deed 

0 

6 

0 


The other Purprestures .... 
Sir Edmund Sawyer, Kt., for cer- 

0 

3 

9 


taine ffishings per an: . . . 

0 

10 

0 


The Collector's Book .... 

57 

3 

8 


The Head Silver .-».... 

1 

0 

6 


The Proffitts of Court .... 
The improvement of the Court 

6 

0 

0 


house and ground thereunto 
belonging. 

f 1 

13 

4 

-f 

Sold to 

£65 

17 

•{ 

Capt. 

Burgos. 


Queen Leaze.£88 0 0 per annum. 

Sum of the Quit Rents.£60 4 8 

(From a copy of the original Survey made about 
the year 1700, in the possession of the Steward 
of the Manor.) 


"The Assert Rent of Bray 1658.” 

(From an original MS. in the possession of Rev. Henry 
Curtis Cherry, Rector of Burghfield.) 

“ Oakley. £ s. d. 

Richard Finch for house and lands . . . 0 10 1^ 

John Powney for Haman Reading ... 0 3 9 

Rich: Powney for house and lands ... 0 1 7 

John Grove for Cottens house and close . 0 1 6 












MANOR AND HUNDRED OF BRAY. 19 

£ d. 

George Laurence for his acre . . . . 0 Q 7\ 

Mr. George Gode for certine grounds . . 0 7 0£ 

Robert Hauthorne for house and lands .064 

Thomas Hauthorne ditto. 0 3 

Rich : Ffellow for his house and shope ..002 
Rich : Deller for house and lands .,,027} 

Symon Page for Hungells.0 16 

John Haeh for Blay Readings and y e acre 0 2 3 

William Lovell for 8 lads (sic) .... 0 1 3 

Rich : Jarvell for house and lands . . . 0 3 1^ 

Mr. Jones for Tho : Hauthorne lands ..016 
John Chamberr for his house and close .014 

Mr. Will: Paule for Brvveres.0 9 4 

Mr. Halstead for lands.0 16 2 

Widd: Wardner for her house and backside 0 0 6 

T'heires of Robt: Bishope for sev 9 all 

grounds. ..1 5 11 

Rich: Winch for New Reading and other 

lands.1 11 11 

Sy : Beckley for sev 9 all grounds ..,.0 6 4} 

Rob 4 Curtier for land ....... 0 1 0 

Mortine Serwerd for lands.Oil 

Bartho: Montague for Bakers .... 0 1 0 

Rich : Laurence for house and lands ..010 
Job: Lovell for land ....... 0 1 0 

Rob 4 Curtis for land by Henery Coomes .010 
Will: Lovell for house and land .... 0 1 0 

Widd. Rugmer for land.0 9 6 

Tho : Cobbs for Mr. Hoults.0 10 0 

Mr. Alexad; Haye for Bushreadings . . 0 11 2 

{On second sheet .) 

Henery Murrey, Esq., for lands (of 

Foxleys) 1 6 8 

Mr. Henery Partridge for land . . . . 0 6 11^ 

John Winch for late land Collenses. . . 0 0 7^ 

The Ffishmongers by Mr. Wilcox ... 0 13 0^ 

John Hersey for Crichfield ..... 0 5 0 

Tdieires of John Pecote for land .... 0 2 0 

Humph : Pickfatt for p’cell of Rutters . . 0 2 5J 

T’heires of John Cowlsey.0 2 9 

Henery Hauthorne for lands.0 7 0 

Will: West for lands.0 4 0 

c 2 














20 


VILLAGE OF BRAT. 


£ S. d. 

Will: Westbrooke.0 0 8 

T’heires of Thomas Ball.0 2 4 

John Bowney for Poultens.0 4 lOj 

Rob 4 Ffielder ..010 

Hugh White.026 

T'heires of Rob 4 Laurence. 0 2 3J 

Widd. Weeden.0 0 lj 

Sy. To we. 007J 

John Boult.0 1 101 

Mr. Henery Baldwine for land . . . . 0 17 0| 

James Smith by Rich. Lawrence ... 0 0 8 

Widd. Boyce by Rob. Pallen. 0 0 5^ 

T’heires of Stamridge. 0 0 8^ 

John Peverell.008 


Sume is ... . £14 4 6” 


JJrajj. 

The village or town of Bray is of great antiquity, and has 
given its name to one of the largest parishes and hundreds in 
Berks. It is situated on the banks of the Thames, about a 
mile to the south of Maidenhead, and about five miles N.W. 
of Windsor. 

The name of this parish is generally considered to be derived 
from the Bibroces , a British tribe anciently residing in this 
locality.— (See Antiquities on Maidenhead Thicket .) 

“ Bray” is proverbially known throughout England, on 
account of the versatile principles of one of the old vicars. 
The story, so quaintly related by Fuller, is as follows:— 

Proverb, “ 'SJje Ftcar of 33ray fotll he Ficar of 23rag still.” 

“ The vivacious vicar hereof, living under King Henry the 
Eighth, King Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen 
Elizabeth, was first a Papist, then a Protestant, then a Papist, 
then a Protestant again. . He had seen some martyrs burnt 
(two miles off) at Windsor, and found this fire too hot for his 
tender temper. This vicar being taxed by one for being a 
turncoat, and an inconsistant changeling, f Not so/ said he, 
‘ for I always kept my principle, which is this,-^to live and 
die the Vicar of Bray/ Such many now-a-days, who, though 
they cannot turn the wind, will turn their mills, and set them 
















EXTENT—POPULATION BOUNDARY. 21 

so, that wheresoever it bloweth, their grist shall certainly he 
grinded.”—(Fuller’s Worthies .) 

Extent : — The area of the parish, according to the survey 
given in the “ Rent Charge,” preserved in the vestry, is as 
follows:— 

acres, ro. per. 

“ Land belonging to various proprietors . 8783 1 25 

Roads and Thames. 318 3 33 

Land not charged with tithe .... 54 3 6 

Woods and Forests belonging to Her 

Majesty, and exempt from tithe . . 327 0 0 


Total area of Parish . 9484 0 24” 


Population : — In 1801 was 2494 
1811 2604 

1821 3159 

1831 3480 

1841 3722 

1851 3952. 

Boundary : — The bounds of the parish, which are identical 
with those of the manor and hundred, have not been “ beaten” 
for many years; for the ancient feuds between Bray and 
White Waltham having been amicably settled by the reso¬ 
lution of the vestry assembled at Bray, December 4th, 1807, 
in which the right of White Waltham to the land “ debateable” 
was acknowledged, and an accurate survey having since been 
made, the limits of the parish may be considered to be well 
known and established. A very interesting account of the 
parish boundary on the White Waltham border is given by 
Hearne (see his edition of Ashmole’s Berks , vol. ii.), in his 
account of the perambulation of the bounds of White Wal¬ 
tham. It is as follows :— 

“ From Woolley Green they go, turning to the right hand, 
to a chalk pit, by which they make another cross in the ground 
between Cookham, Bray, and White Waltham; and so they 
pass through an entry belonging to an ancient house called 
‘ The White House/ which now belongs to Richard Basset, 
and some years ago was part of the possessions of the old 
family of the Westcotts. Leaving one end of the said house 
to Bray, after they have taken a refreshment here (as the 
parishioners of Bray likewise use to do), they go thence along 
by the ditch side, through several grounds between Bray and 
White Waltham, till they come to the Lane House, where 





22 


PARISH BOUNDARY. 


they take another refreshment. Then they pass on to a close 
belonging to Lantoon’s farm. At this farm they stop and 
take another refreshment, and so going thwart Lowbrook- 
lane, they enter one of Heywood Grounds, called f Walnut- 
tree-plot/ Being entered that close, they pass on southward, 
all along the grounds belonging to Heywood, till they come 
to the moat by Heywood House, at which house they put in, 
and use to have a noble treat. Then going through the other 
grounds belonging to the said house, between Bray and White 
Waltham, they pass into a wood or coppice called ‘ W r hite 
Paddock,’ and so keep on southward near Paley-street, where 
at a house called Trigg’s they have a refreshment. They then 
return and keep on southward, till they come into the common 
highway leading to Windsor, and there upon an elm tree they 
make a cross, between Bray and White Waltham. Thence 
they turn westward down the said highway, till they come to 
Shipcott-lane; here they steer southward, and pass up the 
said lane, leaving Waltham Hills on the left hand, in Bray 
parish, till they come to a cross which is cut in the ground at 
the said lane’s end, and divides Bray from White Waltham. 
Then they turn eastward, and taking in a small cottage with 
an orchard, they pass on to Touch in-lane-end, where they 
make a cross on an elm tree, which tree was planted by Sir 
Edmund Sawyer, Kt., about threescore years ago, before 
which time there stood a prodigious great hollow oak, called 
‘Pair Oak.’ Then they turn southward, and pass by Bray- 
wood side, till they come near the great pond, where is a very 
large stone called ‘ Red Stone.’ Leaving this stone, which is 
a bound or mark between Bray and White Waltham, they turn 
westward, and taking in a small cottage and backside, they 
carry on their journey by the hedge side, till they come quite 
to the bottom of Jealous Hill, where they make a cross in the 

ground between Bray and White Waltham. 

“ Although during the time Dr. Carswell was vicar of Bray 
(he died in 1709) the encroachments upon the parish of White 
Waltham were more considerable and grievous than they had 
ever been before, yet the differences between each parish upon 
account of the true bounds, had been carried very high in 
former times, particularly in the reign of Edward III., when 
the matter was strictly examined by proper persons delegated 
and sworn for that purpose, and the issue of the enquiry was 
recorded, and is now extant amongst other old evidences in 
the Tower of London. It appears from thence, that this con¬ 
troversy was decided in the year 1340, being the 14 th year of 



PARISH BOUNDARY. 


23 


that king's reign; and that one cause of the enquiry was the 
king's sequestration of some of the tithe that belonged to the 
parish of Bray. One of the persons empannelled upon the 
jury was Edmund de Little-fend which perhaps should be 

Edmund de Littlefield.The jury gave in evidence 

that the parish of Bray began at a place called ‘ Bodelespole,' 
which is the same that is now named f Ruddlespole.' From 
thence it extended itself to the house of Walter de la Hawe, 
in the parish of Windsor [undoubtedly Haws Hill], and from 
thence to a place called in the instrument by the name of 
Elyster, which was the farthest limit southwards. From 
thence it stretched itself to ‘ Hethrewe,' which was the bound 
westward. Then it went to a place near f Bradenbrugg,' where 
in old time stood a certain oak; this was one of the limits or 
bounds, and on it they used to cut a cross. Thence it ex¬ 
tended itself to Crukesfend, one of the King's Yacheryes; from 
Crukesfend (Cruchfield) to Fayrhok; from Fayrhok to 
Wolvelye, and from Wolvelye to Maydenhith, or Maidenhead. 
.Fayrhok is nothing but the great oak I have men¬ 
tioned in the former section: and Wolvelye is what we now 
call f Woolley.' The Saxons called this last place f Wulverleag;' 
i.e., the place of wolves. 'Tis not at all impossible that it 
was formerly much infested with wolves, especially if it be 
considered, that the woods were here, as well as in all those 
Chiltern parts, far thicker and larger than they are at present, 

and were a refuge for robbers, as well as for wild beasts. 

Now, as Crukesfend was a bound to Bray, so it is likely that 
it derived its name from the large cross that was here cut 
formerly to distinguish and mark out the limits of the parish. 
Of late years the parishioners have strangely intruded upon 
White Waltham in the common, and have taken in a great 
part of Heywood lordship quite contrary to the determina¬ 
tion in the paper I have produced, and altogether against 
custom. I remember that some years ago, I had the curiosity 
to walk round the parish of White Waltham myself in one of 
the yearly circuits; at which time I could not but take par¬ 
ticular notice of the insolence of the parishioners of Bray in 
transgressing their bounds when they came to Crukesfend. 
Dr. Carswell headed and directed them, and they passed in 
great triumph through the common, taking in all Red Stone 
Pond, and considerably farther more west, whereas they ought 
to have left the pond on the west, and to have kept close by 
the wood side. I take the Red Stone to have been placed at 
that time when the controversy first began. We meet with 





24 


PERAMBULATION. 


some stones in England that were fixed purely to notify the 
exact bounds of counties, and this stone we are speaking of, 
was looked upon as a more standing and sure mark for dis¬ 
tinction than a cross on a tree, or in the ground, and less 
subject to alteration, and the adjoining pond taking its name 
from it, would also serve as a direction to posterity in settling 
the disputes that might arise upon this occasion.”— (Hearne.) 

The various manor houses in the parish were held respon¬ 
sible for the perambulation feasts, which claim unquestionably 
grew out of the free generosity and kindness of the occupants 
of those houses in ancient times to those who joined in such 
processions, rather than to any right vested in the inhabitants 
to demand the same. The following is an interesting account 
of one of these feasts given by the kind-hearted owner of 
Hendons in 1790. 

“1790. This year Easter Day fell on the 4 th of April. 
The parishioners had been heretofore used to go the bounds of 
Bray parish at Whitsuntide; but this time they fixed on the 
week after Easter for that business, and accordingly went the 
hounds on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 13 th , 14 th , 
and 15 th days of April. They had been usually accustomed 
to go once in seven years, except when there was a new vicar, 
when it has been customary to go on the new vicar's account, 
either in the first or second year of his possession, to bring 
him acquainted with the boundaries. The Rev d Edward 
Townshend became vicar at the end of the year 1788, but 
declined going in 1789, so went this year; but this year 
being some years before the expiration of the seven years, 
the persons bound to give the perambulation entertainments 
were in an ill humour about it. M r Church of Water Oakley 
had, the time before, very absurdly given these country farmers 
an elegant entertainment totally unsuitable either to their 
taste [?] or station, and this time being displeased at their 
quick renewal of their visit, he treated them very scantily, as 
did also the tenant at Bullock's Hatch. The widow Messenger 
(tenant in Foxleys) gave them money to buy a treat at the 
George Public House at Holyport, instead of having a treat 
at Foxleys; and the landlord of Moor Farm (the farmhouse 
being empty) gave them money in lieu of a meal. As I was 
in a very unsettled state at Hendons, I proposed to them 
taking money instead of a breakfast at Hendons, but they 
persisted in their expectation of having a meal, which I rather 
chose to comply with than give offence to my neighbours. We 
had found by experience, that a gammon of bacon and cheese 


PERAMBULATION. 


25 


was despised by the inferior part of the company, and that 
butcher's meat, satisfying them better, went further; and the 
prices of the two former articles being become greatly ad¬ 
vanced, butcher's meat was the cheapest, as well as the most 
satisfactory meat I could give them. Accordingly, I pro¬ 
vided a sirloin of beef—weight with the suet 42f lbs.; two 
legs of mutton, together 25 lbs., which cost in all l 1 9 s 2f d . 
They had besides 6 thumping plum puddings, 6 half-peck 
loaves, and half a hogshead of brewer's best ale ( i.e . 27 galls, 
racked stout), which all cost l 1 8 s 6 d , and which was nearly 
all drunk. I gave them also three bottles of .old port, and 3 
do. of sherry, also 2 bottles extra afterwards to drink my sis¬ 
ter's health (Lady Lindore's), who called on me whilst they 
were with me. The remains of one of these extra bottles was 
given to a man who kept the low people out of the house, and 
served them in the old court, preserving there great order 
and decency by command of the minister and parish officers. 
A psalm was sung as usual, which was afterwards repeated 
for my sister to hear; ‘ God save the King' was sung in com¬ 
pliment to us, and my health drunk with 3 hyps and three 
cheers. The whole company departed perfectly well satislied, 
and left me equally well contented with their behaviour, which 
had been extremely well regulated. This was on Wednesday 
the 14 th . The provision was all served up cold, and set out 
under the superintendence of my good old nurse M rs Hester 
Horne, who performed the task of making the 6 plum pud¬ 
dings and who was saluted by some of the farmers. \Rer 
gravestone , now nearly obliterated , lies within the church near 
the principal entrance .] My faithful old gardiner Peter 
Perrin did not escape the activity of the f bumpers,' but was 
forced to submit to that ceremony in the court. Our favourite 
spaniel f Sancho' kept close to us the whole time. Mr. Towns- 
hend thought that the number of his companions and fol¬ 
lowers of all descriptions amounted to 200. The above 
quantities of victuals and liquor was the whole of what they 
had and was enough, a little of the beef and ale being left. 
This was the 5 th perambulatory meal at Hendons in my re¬ 
membrance. 

“ Memoran d —When there is another, I must remember to 
desire the minister to say ‘ Grace.' 

“A. M. T." 


2G 


BRAY CHURCH. 


€J)e Gharri). 

There was a church at Bray at the time of the Norman 
survey. “At that place there is a church. . . . Reinbald 
(the priest) holds one hide of land, which belongs to the 
church.”— {Domesday.) Of this edifice, however, not a known 
vestige exists, except, perhaps, the quaint Norman fragment 
over the door of’the old schoolroom in the churchyard, which 
is certainly not in its original position. The greatest portion 
of the old church was undoubtedly taken down in the year 
1293, when the present structure was mainly erected, as 
appears from the following extract from the Court Rolls:— 

Translation. —“Anno 21 Ed. I. (1293). It was given to 
be understood by the wardens of the fabric of the church of 
Bray, of which our Lady the Queen is patron, that an assess¬ 
ment was formerly made to the aforesaid fabric by the consent 
of the whole community of parishioners, and that very many 
tenants of our Lady the Queen who to the said fabric were 
assessed, refuse to pay that assessment, by which the said work 
of the church aforesaid is delayed. And because our lady the 
Queen is bound to maintain the said church by reason of the 
patronage aforesaid, wherefore it is commanded to the beadle 
[of the manor] that he go with the said churchwardens dili¬ 
gently to raise the said assessment from those who refuse to 
pay it.”—(See copy of Original , in the Appendix .) 

The portions erected at this time, from the coincidence of 
the styles, appear to have been— 

1. The nave arches, with a portion of the chancel. 

(The old chancel arch, taken down in 1859, was of 
the transitional period, between the Early English and 
Decorated styles {circa 1250), and was probably coeval 
with the lancet windows in the south wall. The 
mouldings consisted of the plain chamfer, similar to 
the mouldings of the new arches spanning the aisles, 

• and the apex was nearly four feet lower than that of 
the present chancel arch. There was a hood moulding 
on the eastern side only, very similar to that over the 
arches on the south side of the chancel. The original 
capitals had been destroyed.) 

2. The west end, including the nave door, above which was 
an early perpendicular window, circa 1400. 

3. The north wall, as far as the chapel of St. Nicholas,— 

(except the perpendicular window, circa 1450). 


THE CHURCH. 


27 


4. The basement of the upper chancel, including the pis¬ 
cina; the superstructure having been rebuilt about the be¬ 
ginning of the sixteenth century. 

The next addition seems to have been the tower, circa 1400, 
which probably superseded a former one of smaller dimensions 
(some of the stones of the tower are of the same kind as the 
ancient Norman fragment over the old school door). The 
outer doorway is a remarkably tine specimen of the period. 

The Chapel of All Saints, at the east end of the south aisle, 
seems to have been rebuilt about the same time as the “ High 
Chancel,” the ancient piscina (circa 1250) being preserved. 
This chapel was formerly detached from the south aisle, as 
appears by the position of a piscina about the middle of the 
south wall. The ancient wooden porch on the south side of 
this chapel was removed in 1840. This chapel was restored 
in 1860, by Ed. Howley Palmer, Esq., of Canon Hill, when 
the character of the style was changed from late to early 
Perpendicular.— (See Memorial Windows.) 

The Chapel of St. Nicholas, at the east end of the north 
aisle seems to have been reconstructed about 1530, although 
there is evidence in favour of an earlier period.—(See Will of 
John Norreys , squyer . “ Ockwells.”) One of the original 

corbels in this chapel bears the arms of Norreys (argt. a chev¬ 
ron between three ravens’ heads sa.) impaling quarterly 1 st and 
4 th . . . three covered cups . . . ; 2 nd and 3 rd . ... a tower, 
triple towered . . . (unemblazoned). 

Roof. —The massive oak roof of the nave and aisles is one 
of the few remaining timber roofs of the thirteenth century' 
(1293). 

The old chancel roof was of oak, and was coeval with the 
additions made to the chancel circa 1500. The rafters were 
connected by collars resting on elliptical braces. The edges 
of the braces were moulded with a plain cavetto; and the 
whole, previous to its removal in 1859, was concealed by a 
plaster ceiling. One of the principal beams of the original 
roof of All Saints Chapel, taken down in 1860, bore the 
following inscription :— 

“ glnno IBomtnt 1600 . 15bfoarbe 
<Robcrtt (Wtncbe, OTttlltam J^afotbonu, 3 Sobn kartell, 
anb 3fttcbarbt Jfftncbe bring dfburcbfoarbens. 


W. B. C. I. L. C. ft. F. C. P ” 


28 


THE CHURCH. 


Windows .—The old east window of the north aisle con¬ 
tained, amongst others, the figure of St. Margaret with 
angels.— (See Monuments ). 

Mural Paintings .—Various parts of the church seem to 
have been decorated with diapers, and designs of sacred sub¬ 
jects. Faint traces of a fresco were visible on the south wall, 
between the lancet windows, before the replastering of the 
church. It appeared to have consisted of figures of saints, in 
vestments of red and blue, under canopies executed in a 
yellowish tint; the whole on a diapered ground. The figures 
were destroyed, some years ago, by the insertion of a mural 
slab to the memory of Mr. Clark, of Alt wood. 

The ovolo mouldings of the nave arches were encircled with 
red spiral bands, about one inch and a half broad, and about 
the same distance apart, running from the capital to the apex 
of each arcln 

Texts of scripture in black letter of the age of the Re¬ 
formation were discovered above the old arches on the north 
side of the chancel in 1859. The texts were in English, but 
so imperfect that nothing could be deciphered. 

In the same year a fragment of a painting of moderate 
execution, representing the appearance of our Lord to Mary 
Magdalene, was found at the east end of the chapel of All 
Saints. The draperies were executed in red and grey. The gar¬ 
den was indicated by conventional branches of trees of a bluish 
grey tint in the background. From the costume of the Mag¬ 
dalene, it was probably painted about the year 1500. 

Font .—The present font, as appears from the old Church¬ 
wardens* Book, was erected in 1647. 

£ s. d . 

“ Item. Payd to Mr. Winch, of Ffifield, for 

the new Phaunt.1 12 3 

It. Payd to Waul, the Joyner, for car¬ 
rying home the Phaunt to his 

howse.006 

It. Payd more to Waule, for the couer 
of the Phaunt, and the Piller, 
and for carving, painting, gylde- 
ing, setting up the same Phaunt 2 2 0 


£3 15 9” 


Rood Screen .—The ancient Rood screen still survives in the 





CHURCH INVENTORIES. 29 

memories of the oldest inhabitants. It was of oak, and 
handsomely carved. Upon the Rood screen were fixed 

The Royal Arms , carved about the year 1604, which shared 
in the downfall of royalty at the Great Rebellion, as appears 
by the following from the old vestry book: — 

£ s. d . 


“ 1654. Ffor the Commonwealthe Armes .13 0 

To William Lamden, for setting 

them upp.0 10 


£1 4 0” 

(The shield is carved on both sides. The arms were 
taken from the Rood screen previous to its destruction). 

A black-letter copy of Foxe’s Rook of Martyrs was formerly 
chained to a desk at the west end of the south aisle. The book, 
with the chain attached to the cover, is still preserved in the 
vestry, though in a very tattered condition; the greater 
portion of its contents having been filched by unscrupulous 
admirers. 

Inventories of Church Goods from the old Churchwardens’ 
Book. 

“An Inventory of Church Goods remayninge the 24 of 
June, Anno 1602 :— 

“ Imp. 1 Bible, 2 Books of prayer. 

It. 2 Surplyces, & 2 Communion cloathes. 

It. 1 Siluer cupp w* a couer. 

[The ancient clialice-covers were generally conical 3 
many having a small cross on the summit.'] 

It. 1 Chest w* three lockes, & 1 w* one locke. 

It. 1 Caudron, 2 brasse pots, 2 spits. 

[These were used for the preparation of the dinner at 
the ‘ breaking* of Queen-lease.] 

It. 8 dousen of trenchers, 2 plancks, one great chest w* a 
couer. 

It. In the long loft, 2 planckes, 2 formes, 3 tressels. 

It. In the other loft, 2 tables, 1 forme. 

It. 4 sheetes of lead, 5 garters w* bells, and 4 Morrice 
coates.” 


Second Inventory (1623). 

“ The goods belonging to the Church, delivered by Thomas 





30 


MONUMENTS. 


Laurence and Richard Martin, iiij May, 1623, to the then 
churchwardens:— 

“ It. Two Challises with couers. 

,, One plate to carry the communion bread in. 

,, Two pewter Flaggons. 

„ Two Surplises. 

,, One communion table cloth of linen, and one of woollen, 
and pul pet cushion. 

,, One chest in the vestry with three lockes. 

,, One chest in the church with a box in him for the poore, 
and lockes sufficient to him. 

„ One spitt. 

,, One great brasse pott, and one lesser brasse pott. 

,, Fower coates for Morris dansers, and for the Mayd 
Maryan, and a payre of breeches and dooblet for the 
foole, and a cupp. 

,, Twelue tressels, and one table, and three pullyes. 

„ A cote to whipp Rouges in, delyuered to Tho. Laurence, 
Cnst.” [constable.] 

Third Inventory. 

“March 31, 1662. A note of plate and other goods 
belonging to the Parish of Bray :— 

“It. Twoe large silver flaggons. 

,, Twoe large silver challisces. 

,, Twoe silver plates. 

„ One linen and clothe table clothes for the communion 
Table. 

„ Three ladders. Ffoure deale poles. 

,, Two biers, one coffin. 

„ One large bible, and twoe service Bookes.” 


JWonumentg. 

i 

From Ashmole's “Antiquities of Berks” Copied by him in 
1666. The notes braced thus [ ] are by the author. 

“ Against the north wall of the chancel towards the east, is 
a large monument containing the busto of a man in a gown, 
leaning his hands on a skull: by him, his wife, holding a book 
in her hands, and this inscription under them. [The monu¬ 
ment of William Goddard and wife.] 


MONUMENTS. 


31 


1 If what I was thou seekest to know, 

These lynes my character shall shew, 

Those benefits that God me lent, 

With thaukes I tooke, and freely spent : 

I scorned what plainess could not gett, 

And, next to treason, hated debt; 

I loved not those that stirr’d up strife r. 

True to my friend and to my wife. 

The latter here by me I have, 

We had one bed, and have one grave. 

My honesty was such that I 

When death came, feared not to dye.”* 

[In 1776, a stone was found in the vestry, bearing 
the arms of Goddard impaling—Quarterly 

1 A billet engr. betw : 3 crosses pattee fitch ee. 

2 A fesse betw: 3 buckles (Bradley of Oak- 

ingham). 

3 A chev. or, betw: 3 boars 5 heads. 

4 A chev. sa. 

Sir Tho. Reeve’s Memorand. 
William Goddard, the founder of Jesus Hospital 
in Bray, was married to Joyce Mauncell at St. 
Dunstan’s in the West, 19th February, 1587.] 

“ In the said N. wall is another monument, in which are 
the figures of a man and his wife kneeling at a desk engraven 
on brass plates with the following inscription :— 

* When Oxford gave thee two degrees in art, 

And love possest thee master of my heart 
Thy colledge fellowshipp thow lefs’t for mine 
And novght bvt deathe covld seprate me fro thine. 

Thirty-five yeares we livd’e in wedlocke bands 
Conioyned in ovr hearts as well as handes 
Bvt death the bodies of best friendes devides 
And in the earths close wombe their relyckes hides 
Yet here they are not lost but sowen, that they 
May rise more gloriovs at the Judgment day.’ ” 

[On this monument are the arms of Rixman on 
brass—viz., Azure, on a chevron betw. 3 greyhounds 
erased arg. and collared or, three pellets of the last 
impaling the arms of White—viz., gu. an annulet 
or (for diflP.) within a bordure sa. charged with eight 
estoiles or. On a canton ermine, a lion ramp, of the 
second.—See Monument of John Rixman.'] 

“ Under the south wall near the east end of the south aisle, 
lies a marble gravestone with the following inscription on it— 


32 


MONUMENTS. 


Memorise Sacrum, 

Yiri honoratissimi domini 
THOMiE STEWKELEY 
de Marsh, in Comitatu Somerset, Militis 
Qui natus 4° die Aprilis, Anno Dni. 1569. 
fidelis, et dilectus 
gratise plenus, et dierum, 
feliciter expiravit, 

ipso Redemptions nostrse die 12 Aprilis 
Anno Dni. 1639. iEtatis suse 70. 

Sit Deo gloria.” 

[Removed into the tower during the recent restorations, 1860. 

Arms on this monument (from Sir R. T. Reeves' Coll.) : 

Quarterly—1 Chequy arg. and sa. a fesse gu. within a 
bordure azure. 

2 Azure, a bend betw. 6 martletts sa. 

3 Ermine, on a pale, 3 leopards' heads. 

4 -on a chief indented az. three crowns 

or (prob. Lytton). 

Over all an escutcheon of pretence : per pale, or and 
gules, a lion rampant betw. 3 cinquefoils counter- 
changed.] 

(( On another gravestone on a brass plate are the figures of 
a man in a long robe with a cap on his head, and his wife by 
him dressed in the habit of her times, and this inscription 
under their feet:— 

pjtc facet OTtllfilmus Hate miles, nttper unus Sjustftt* 
auorum he Danco Dm. idegIs, films quonhamlftfcarht 
Hafcen JtfUlttls: qui qutfcem OTUlUelmus otmt 6 Die 
JWen. Octofms Dni. m.ccec.lnb. ISt Dna. 
Ophelia uxor efus, filta, et una fierehum ^ofiamus 
^pferfoast quonham Dni. he Cleaber. Quorum am- 
mabus propfrictur Deus. gtmen.” 

[This inscription, the figure of the wife, and 3 of 
the shields are lost. The remaining shield bears the 
arms of Laken.—Quarterly, per fesse indented, ermine 
and azure. 

The Arms of Syfrewast, or Syferwast, of Clewer, 
were—Argt. 3 bars gemelles, azure. 

“W. Laken constit. T. R. apud Westm: 4 Junii 
Pat. 5. Edw: IV. p. 1, m. 8. Anno 1466.” 
—(Lug dale) 




MONUMENTS. 33 

His name occurs in the B. C. B. dated Oct. 6, 
39 Hen. YI. (1461), among the list of suitors:— 
“ Will: Lacon xii d serviens ad legem .” 

Extracts from the will of Laken, dated 26 th Sep¬ 
tember, 15 th Edward 4 th . (1475.)— {Doctors 1 
Commons.) 

“ Item. To the Churche of Bray to by a 
Masseboke xl 3 . 

Item. To the reparacione of Efoxley chapel 
in the same xx s . 

To the foure orderes of freres in Lon¬ 
don iiii 11 : to eche of them xx 8 .” 

To his son William he bequeathed his “ place of 
Stone” in Kent. To his daughter Elizabeth Mor¬ 
timer, a wood called Godewood in Graybury, and a 
scarlet gown with the hood. To George Laken 
two books of Law. His oxen, ploughs, &c., were 
left to Sybil, his executrix, to be employed accord¬ 
ing to her discretion, for the benefit of his soul.— 
{Will) 

“Thom* Bryan and Wills’ Laken Justic’ Dhi 
Regis ad ass’ in Com Sussex.”— {On a paper roll 
temp. Bel. IV., preserved with the B. C. it.)] 

“ On another gravestone near the former, is the figure of a 
man in armour between his two wives, his feet resting upon a 
tree? [evidently a fox, from the form of the matrix. Ashm. 
states that the figure of W. Laken stands upon a cushion, 
which is not correct] with this inscription underneath 
them:— 

pjtc facet ^bomas jpoxlty, gtrmtger, qttt ofmt sccunho 
IKe Nobemb: gtn: l&ni. JW.cccc.mbt et JHargcrta ac 
®Kobalba* mores cjtts. Quorum ammabus propt= 
ctetur Beus. ^men.” 

[The whole of this brass is lost (1860). A shield 
and a half were remaining as late as No.v. 1859. 
Above the matrices of the figures are those of three 
shields, which were copied in 1760 by Sir Tho. 
Reeve, and which bore the following arms:— 

1 Gules, 2 bars argt.—( Foxle.) 

* Theobalda, dau. of John de Marys, of Harbleton, in Harrietsliam, died in 
1479, and was buried in the monastery of St. Saviour’s, Feversham.— {Topographer 
and Genealogist.) 


D 


34 


MONUMENTS. 


2 A shield of 3 bars nebulee ermine (Martyn, 

his mother's family; prob. of the Martyns 
of Lowbrooks). 

3 Ermine, on a chief indented azure, 3 ducal 

crowns or. (Arms of Margery Lytton, 
his first wife.) 

4 Barruly, argt. and azure. (Theobalda Marys, 

or Marshe, his 2nd wife.)] 

“ On another marble gravestone, lying near the former, is 
this inscription:— 

TN’M. 

. 

Crux Christi Christiana gloria 
Sub hoc vexillo Eidei Catholic®, et Besurrectionis beat® 
spe, ecce monumentum Domin® Honorabilis verecjue 
nobilis Ann^e Sandys de Foxleys in Parochia dc 
Bray®. 

Diu hie versata fuit nobiscum, vit® sanct® innocentia in 
sacra munificentia, in proximos liberalitate, assiduis in 
egenos Eleemosynis nec uno solum angulo, sed ubique 
illius pr®luxit celebritas, armorum denique et aim® 
fam® statura, dictis votivis precibus, et in Deum de¬ 
vote fusis, evolavit in requiem ®ternam. Die 21 
Januarii, Anno Dni. 1639; iEtatisque su® 84°." 

[Beneath is the widow's shield bearing the arms 
of Sandys:—Argent, a cross raguly and trunked, 
sable; impaling on a fesse, between three swans' 
heads erased and collared regally or, three cinque¬ 
foils.] 

“ On another marble gravestone, lying farther in the south 
aisle, is a representation of Sir John Foxly lying between his 
two wives, and this inscription around them:— 

.facet Butts ^ofjannes . 

.Nobentfms, &nno Bomtut JFltlltmo. 

.... Cufus amme proptetetur Betts, gluten." 

[The figure of his first wife (Matilda Brocas), on 
his right hand, has on her kirtle the arms of Foxle 
“ gu. 2 bars arg*" impaling “ Sa: a lion rampant 
or." The dress of his second wife (Joan Martyn) 
bears his own arms. The beautiful canopy and 
shield, from the appearance of the matrix, have 






MONUMENTS. 


35 


been long lost. The monument has recently been 
moved into the north aisle for its better preserva¬ 
tion. For the will of Sir John Foxle, see Foxley 
Manor. The will, dated 5th Nov. 1378, was proved 
at Southwark, on the first of December, the same 
year.] 

“ On a gravestone in the middle of the south aisle, on a 
brass plate is this inscription :— 

Hie jacet Gulielmus Smithe, Armiger quondam sere- 
niss Eegine Elizabeths, ad arma, et scutellus ser- 
viens, que officia prius habuit ex dono Maris Regine, 
qui postquam digna laude vite sue cursum in fideli 
servitio Principum transegisset, obiit 28° die Octobris, 
Anno Dni, 1594. Etatis autem sue 84°.” 

[Attached to this plate is a shield of his arms, 
viz., Sable, an annulet or, within a bordure engr. 
arg fc ; on a chief of the last, a mace or. Crest :—A 
dexter arm couped ppr. grasping a mace, or.] 

“ Upon another gravestone, in the south aisle, is this in¬ 
scription :— 

Here lyeth the body of Bartholomew Smith, Gen., who 
died the 15 tb of June, 1638, aged 78. 

“ Upon'a gravestone lying at the foot of the former, under 
the figures of a man and his wife in their usual habits, on 
brass, is this inscription :— 

3Pray for tfje Souks of gjofw fouler, anb.ftps 

foyfe; fojjtci) 3Jojju becessyh tfje xxtb. hay of August, 
m the yere of our Horb JtfUccdxxtx. on foljosc souks 
3$esu ijabe mercy. 

Under this are the figures of his two daughters.” 

[This brass, if not lost, is covered by the pews. 
His wife, whose name is missing in the above in¬ 
scription, was Agnes, dau. of William Norreys, of 
Winkfield, co. Berks. Alice, one of their dau. and 
eventually sole heiress of the Fowlers, brought the 
Fifield estate in marriage to Edmund Norreys, gent. 
—a suitor at the Man. Court in 1504.] 

“ On another gravestone in the said aisle, is this inscrip¬ 
tion :— 


d 2 



3f) MONUMENTS. 

Here lieth buried the body of M rs Elizabeth Parry, wife 
to Hugh Parry, of New Windsor, Gent., Daughter 
to John Page Esq. of this Parish. Shee dyed the 29 
of May, in the yeare 1659.” 

[John Page, of Down Place, here mentioned, was 
the son of Randolph, the brother and heir of Ar¬ 
thur Page mentioned in the following inscription.] 

“ On the south side of a great pillar erected between the 
south and middle aisle is fixed a brass plate, bearing the effi¬ 
gies of a man and his wife praying at a desk, and under them 
is this inscription :— 

Neere vnto this place lyeth bvried y e bodies of Arthvr 
Page of Walter. Okelye in y e p’ishe of Braye, and 
Covntie of Berk, Gent: who had to wife Sessely 
Brownesopp davghter of William Brownesopp Esq: 
They had Issve one sonn Edward Page, the said Ar¬ 
thur deceased y e xxiiii th daye of Decemb: An no 1610, 
and y e said Sessely dyed y e xii t]l daye of March An° 
1598.” 

[This brass was removed to the north aisle in 
1860. For particulars, see Kembers, Down-Place, 
and Sheers.] 

“ On a brass plate fixed to a gravestone under the com¬ 
munion table, is this inscription :— 

facet JFtucpstcr (ffltlltclmus 3Bgcr, quontan btca= 
ftus (JBccIeste he qttt otmt ultimo hit gjanuaru, 
Urn. Jtt.cccc.xl. antme propictetur Dcus. 
gtmen.” 

[In 1422 William Dyer, “ clericus,” held the lands 
and tenements in the parish of Bray called Mast- 
hall —suitor’s fine, 4 cl. — (B. CB.) 

In 1426 he sued William Hakker in the Manorial 
Court for 39^. \\d. 9 the price of some lambs which 
the latter had purchased, and for which he had 
refused to pay.—(. B . C. R.) 

“ In the feasts of the Fraternity of the Holy 

Cross in Abingdon.they used to have 12 

minstrels, viz., 6 from Coventry, and 6 from 
Maidenhead, for which, and for other uses of the 
Fraternity, William Dyer, Vicar of Bray, gave them 
five tenements in East St. Helen’s Street; three 
tenements in West St. Helen’s Street, and other 



MONUMENTS. 37 

lands in Abingdon.”—Hcarne’s edit, of Leland’s 
Itinerary .] 

“ Lower, on the same gravestone, on a brass plate, is this 
inscription:— 

0ratc pro afa hat ®Some atte lube ffiapellanf otfus antme 
proptctctur 3Beus. gtmcn.” 

\_“ Anno XI. Hen. VI. (1433.) Maydenhith. 
Thom Pankebourn dec* ibm, p 9 s qd Tft Ltjde iiijd 
cticus n5 inclus’ sep’ suas ap d Wyndonhull int 9 regia 
via et terr’ Prioris de Bustelesham.”— -{B. C. R.) 

John atte Lude, Alex, de Babeham, Bob. de 
Shyplake, John atte More, John Squyer, “ clericus,” 
&c., were witnesses to a deed dated 1359, between 
John Brid and John Winchecomb, chaplain.— 
(B.C.R.)] 

“Not far from the entrance into the chancel, is a gravestone 
bearing the following inscription :— 

Here lyetli the body of Elizabeth Mosse, widdow of 
Francis Mosse, Citizen and Scriviner of London, who 
departed this lyfe the 4 th of March, in the 67 th year 
of her age. Anno Domini, 1662. ' 

“ On a gravestone lying on the north side of the chancel 
is this inscription :— 

Under this marble resteth James Huckell, Esq: who 
was servant to Three Princes,—Queen Elizabeth, King 
James, and King Charles; in office, Groome, Yeoman, 
and Serjeant of the Larder to the said Princes 
49 yeares. He lived in holy Wedlock with Katharine 
Browne of Surrey, 48 yeares and a halfe, with much 
comfort and happiness, and died in the Faith of Christ, 
Nov. 13th, 1641. Aged 81. 

Loe, here a friend enclosed, now at rest, 

Whose Soule no doubt, is placed by the best. 

His purse was open both to Rich and Poore 
To Friend and Foe, so likewise was his Doore. 

He aym’d at Peace in all his Course of Lyfe, 

He hated Difference and avoyded Strife ; 

From whence it may be said he is in Bliss, 

Which Christ affoards to none but those are His. 

He hath a Conquest, being gone before, 

Our Combatts are to come, our Sorrowes more. 1 

Lastly, his Office found his Livery, sued now, bearing 
date 1641, Nov. 13. To whose Memory, Catharine 
liis Wife as a Memoriall of her Affection to her deceased 
Husband, imposed this stone. 


38 


MONUMENTS. 


“ On a marble gravestone, eastward of the former, is the 
following inscription:— 

Here vnder lyeth y e Body of John Rinman, Gent, who 
deceased at his Hovse a*t Maydenhead, An 0 Dni. 1620, 
and of his age 66, for whome, Mary his onely wife, 
cavsed this stone to be laid, and erected this Monvment 
in the Wall, 1621 ” 

[This inscription refers to the brass formerly on the 
north side of the chancel, above the vestry door, re¬ 
cently placed in the south pier of the chancel arch.] 

“ Under the east window, of the north aisle is a large brass 
[wrong, being a black marble slab] plate, fastened in the wall, 
whereon is engraved the figure of William Norris in armour, 
(sometime usher of the Black Rod to the most noble Order of 
the Garter), over which is his mantle, having St. George’s 
Arms in an escutcheon encircled with the garter thereon. 
Behind him are figures of his 6 sons; before him kneels his 
wife, and behind her, 6 daughters. Beneath this plate, in 
the wall, is also a black marble, bearing the following in¬ 
scription :— 

William Norreys of Fifild in Bray, esq 1 ’, who was Vsher 
of the p’liament howse & of the noble order of the 
garter a Getlema pencioner Comptroler of the Works 
of Windesor Castle & p’ks ther, & Keeper of FolliJhon 
parke, W ch offices he had by y e gifte of Qween Marie 
enioyed theime dvringe life. Most faithfvlly servinge 
his noble soveraine Qweene Elizabeth, a Iustice of peace 
of Barkshere, ever of honest behavior & good repvta- 
tion favoringe the virtws plesvringe mannie hvrtinge 
none, Died at his Howse of Fifild 16 Aprilis 1591 at 
the aage of 68 years, after he had be maried 43 years 
& had issve 6 sonns & 6 dawghters & is interred by his 
Awncestors, Vnder the stone graven w th his Armes, 
hcarbefor liinge. 

Innocvvs vixi, si me post fvnera, Isedas 
Coelesti Domino, facta (sceleste) Ives. 

Maria ex Fortescvorv familia adhuc svperstes Vidva 
relicta supradicti Willielmi Norreys hoc monumentum 
suis expensis optimo svo marito defuncto Cvravit fieri 
9 Augvsti 1592.” 

[This monument, which was for some years in the 
south aisle, is now on the south wall of the chancel: 


MONUMENTS. 


39 


the stone “ graven vv th his armes ” alluded to, lies in 
the tower. His eldest son. Sir John Norreys, who 
was knighted at Reading by Queen Elizabeth in 
1601, died in the year 1612 seised of Bullocks in 
East Oakley, with all the lands appertaining:—a 
messuage in Eifield called “ Palmeres,” with the 
appurtenances, and a messuage called “Browms,” 
and “ Coteres : ”—another messuage in Stroud 
Tithing called “Pratts,” and “Barretts,” and a 
tenement called “ Jenkyn Ewysts.”— {B. C. B.) 

A shield on this monument has the following 
quarterings: 

1 Quarterly ar. and gu.; in the second and 

third quarters a fret, or; over all a fesse 

azure, thereon a crescent for diff. (Norreys.) 

2 Arg. a falcon with wings expanded, sa. on a 

mount vert. (Ernes or Erneis.) 

3 Sa. a cross moline, or. (Molyneux.) 

4 Sa. a fret arg., in chief point a mullet arg. 

for diff. (Harington.) 

5 Arg. a cross bottonee sa. 

6 Arg. a lion rampant azure. (Streche.) 

7 . . . . three bars. 

8 Same as No. 1.] 

“ Directly under the last-mentioned inscription lies a black 
marble bearing this inscription :— 

Relicta non Amissa. 

Under here lyeth the body of Anne Clerke, late wife to 
Hercules Clerke, Esq., who, if God so please, meaneth 
to be buried nigh this stone. She died the 3 d of July, 
1641, aged 46. 

A little before her death she used these words,—‘Lord 
Jesus Christ, for thy mercies sake, come quickly, Lord 
Jesus come quickly, even so be it/ 

Sic Donee/* 

[Hercules Clerke, son of Sir William Clerke, of 
Hitcham, married Anne Cherry, eldest daughter of 
Thomas Cherry of North Kilworth, and the sister 
of Thomas Cherry and Ellen, whose monument lies 
in the south aisle.] 

“ North of this stone, is a grey marble gravestone, on which 
on a brass plate, is the figure of a woman in her usual habit, 
and under her feet is this inscription:— 


40 


MONUMENTS. 


I^ere lyetb Ursula gtnbrolues, the traugftter of ^iltcftarb 
glnbrotoes, of the County of Southampton Csqutre, 
anb late lutfc of plenty Norres (Sent, lubteb Ursula 
beceaseb the 18 hay of 3(une, gin. Bnt. 1560; (®hose 
Soule Cob parbon ” 

[This brass is lost. The ledger was the ancient 
altar slab, previous to the Be formation. Four of the 
consecration crosses remain at the angles. The stone 
now lies beneath the communion table.] 

“ On a small black marble gravestone lying near the north 
wall, is this inscription :— 

Here lyeth the Body of Jinjith, the eldest daughter of 
Eichard Barnes and Hannah his wife. She departed 
this lyfe, the 6 th of August, 1651, aged five yeares and 
fower moneths. 

“ On a lesser grey marble gravestone adjoyning to the last 
is this inscription : — 

Mary Barnes the daughter of Eichard Barnes qf this 
parish, gentleman died the 18 th of Decemb. 1650. 

“ Lower in the north aisle lies a gravestone with the follow¬ 
ing inscription on a brass plate:— 

&nno IBom. 1567. <2BU?abetba Jiegtne 10 JFlense 

Nob: 17 0 • 

Nomine parbtis eras, net nomt'na spernc ILt'telle: 

Ingenft, atque antnri ponbere magntts eras. 
iFlajor eras pietate, tameit nttue boribtts auctus, 
©mntbus etljereo maxtmtts orbe sebes. 

Cbonm Utrillo biro &rmtgero, et po gjo. £ar. 
postrit. 

“ On another plate lower than the former is this inscrip¬ 
tion :— 

&ltfjouqb thou ealleb luere but Httrill by tby name, 

In lui'tt tby Jttinb anb Coblyness, full great yet foas 
in fame. 

Yet Inhere tbou toast before but greate, through Fertue 
selnre 

®6° u qteater noln,boest rest tn beaben, for eber to tnbure ” 

[The inscriptions are lost, but the armorial bearings 
remain. ® 


MONUMENTS. 


41 


1 Per chevron, arg. and sable; in chief two 

fleur-de-lis of the last; in base a tower of 
the first. 

There are three shields hearing the 
above arms. 

2 In the upper right-hand corner is the widow’s 

escutcheon, with the following quarter- 
ings:— 

1 Ermine, on a chief indented azure, 
three crowns or, for Lytton. 

2 Arg. 3 hoars’ heads erect and erased 
sable, for Boothe, or Both. 

3 Ermine, a cross gu., charged with 5 
escallop shells arg. for Weyland. 

4 Sa. on a fesse between 6 acorns or, 3 
oak leaves ppr. for Oke, or Okeden. 

5 .... an eagle displayed .... 

6 . . . . three Catharine wheels .... 

In the lower left-hand corner are the arms of 

Little impaling Litton with the above 
quarterings. 

Thomas Little, or Littell, married Elizabeth, second dau. 
and coh. of Sir Robert Litton, the son of William Litton, 
Governor of Boulogne Castle, and Audry, heiress of Sir 
Philip Booth, kt., of Shrubland Hall, Suffolk. Ellen, sole 
dau. and heiress of Thomas Little, married Edward Bacon, 
who, in 1604, sold the ancient estates of the Little family in 
Bray to Dr. Robert Challoner for 2000/. The following lands 
formed the chief part of the Little estate in Bray. Scott’s 
Close; Heepreadings, 5 ac.; Broadreading, 25 ac.; Hill’s 
Close, 8 ac.; Cow Close, 20 ac.; Fryth Close, 4 ac.; Frythes 
Mead, 3 ac.; Saddocks, 5 ac.; a tenemlnt called " Masts ” in 
Altwood with 47 acres of land; besides 54 acres lying in 
Bray Field. 

In 1530, Robert Little purchased the estate called Masts, 
with other lands in “ Bray, Fifield, and Winkfield, of John 
March, alias Dony, and Margaret his wife; and in 1537, the 
said Robert conveyed the same lands, &c., to Robert Little, 
Gent., and Joan his wife, and to their son Robert, and his 
heirs.”— -(B. C. R)] 

“ On another brass plate, fixed in a gravestone somewhat 
westward of the former, is this inscription:— 


0 


42 


MONUMENTS. 


Here under this marble-stone lyeth buried the body of 
Clemente Kelke, Gent., who had to wife Eliz. 
daughter to Alderman Becher, he was borne at Bristow, 
and was a citizen of London, a merchant ventyer and 
free of the Haberdashers, being of the age of 70 yeares, 
deceased this 24 th of Sept. An 0 Dni, 1593. 

" On a brass plate fixed to a gravestone near the west end 
of the north aisle is this inscription :— 

Here lyeth buried the body of Thomas Lawrence of Bray, 
in the county of Berks, who dyed the 28 th of October, 
1603. 

“ On a brass plate fixed to a gravestone in the body of the 
church, are the figures of a man and his wife, and under them 
this inscription :— 

0 ratc pro antmabus Hobcrtt Jfofokr, ct uxorts 

tjus, ac omnium fibclutm bcfimctorum; qttt qtubcnt 

3 ftotattts ohitt-Bk jTOnxsfe.&nno Bnt. 

JMlo. QLQLQLQL' .Quorum antmatms propkktur 

Bats. &nun. 

Under this epitaph are the figures of five sons and five 
daughters.” 

[Probably under the seats in the nave. “They 
reported that Alice Palmer, wife of John Palmer, 
died on the 22 day of Dec., 31 Hen. VI. [1453], 
seised of f Coteres > and f Palmers Sen r * and f Palmers 
Jun r7 j whence an ox was due, &c.; and that Agnes, 
the wife of Robert Fouler, was her daughter and 
next heir; and that the said Agnes owed 9 s 6 d for 
her f relief. C. R. (See Appendix.)'] 

“ On a gravestone lying in the body of the church is this 
inscription ;~ 

It was assigned by God above, 

Two Brethren which did dearely love, 

Both of them at one tyme should dye 
And both within one grave do lie. 

Eobert & Eichard Winch they hight, 

To heaven their soules have made their flight; 

What greater joy can be than this, 

From earth to heaven, from Bale to Bliss ? • 

To rich ne Poore they shut no Dore, but openhanded still 
Nor envious Eage in all their Age, could ever work his will. 

This I dare say, well seated Bray, since first she had her being 
Nurst not two such that .... such in Lyfe and Death agreeing. 




MONUMENTS. 43 

These two loving brothers were both buried the 25 th of De¬ 
cember, 1618.” 

[Beneath is the following inscription :— 

“ Here lieth the body of Ann, the wife of Mr. Richard 
Winch, of Shoppenhangers, who died Jany. 20, 
1725, aged 35 years.] 

“ Upon another gravestone is this inscription :— 

Heere lye interred the bodies of Thomas Cherry, of 
Maydenhead, in this parish, who dyed 14 th Sept. 1657. 
Anno iEtatis 61°. 

And of Ellen his wife, who died 19 th of Sep. 1657. 
Anno iEtatis 59°. They lived together in Wedlock 
35 yeares, and had 8 Sonns and one Daughter, and were 
both interred here in one grave. Sept. 20, 1657. 

Heere lye also the bodies of William Cherry, and 
Thomas Cherry, sons of William Cherry, fourth son of 
the said Thomas and Ellen. 

They were aged 4 years. 

[Thomas Cherry, of Maidenhead, was a descendant 
of the De Cheries, of Picardy and Normandy, Lords 
of Beauval, Liguiere, and Villencourt. A branch 
settled in England at an early period. In 1407, as 
appears from the French archives, Jean, or John de 
Cherie sought for, and obtained a safe conduct from 
the king to pass into Normandy. By an Inq. Post 
Mort. 14 Hen. IY. (1412-3), it appears that Thomas 
and John Cherie held lands, &c., in Plumpton,. co* 
Northampton; and from this Thomas, and John his 
son, descend the present representatives of the family 
in England. William Cherry, son of the said Thomas 
and Ellen, founded the Bray School Charity about 
the year 1682. Francis, son of the said William, 
was the friend of Dodwell, and patron of Hearne* 
The Cherrys of Burghfield and Denford are de* 
scended from George, eldest son of the said Thomas 
Cherry and Ellen (Powney). This monument has 
been recently restored by the present representatives 
of the family.] 

+ 

“ On a brass plate in a gravestone under the feet of a man 
lying between his two wives, all three habited in the fashion 
of their times, is this inscription :— 


44 


MONUMENTS. 


Orate pro animate OTltUtelmt Sbtnttb, ^gnetis et jltta* 

tilftc uxorurn ejtts; cjut qufoem ©Btlltclmus obttt. 

Ouorum antmabus propictetur Detts. glmcn.” 

[Still remaining in the south aisle.] 

“ In the body of the church, on another brass plate, is the 
following:— 

Orate pro antrna ^jobannfe 33 trb, cufus corpus facet bic 
bumatum.” 

[Undoubtedly the monument of John Brid. —See 
Seneschals of the Manor . The name Bird does not 
occur in the B. C. B. He died in 1372,— B. C. B. 
(See Appendix .)] 

The end of Ashmole's Inscriptions. 


On the wall , beginning at the west end of the north aisle. 

“ Memorise Sacrum. 

Thomse Brown, A.M. Hujus Ecclesise per 50 annos 
Vicarii, obiit July 9, 1759. iEtat 94. 

Item.—Elizabethse Conjugis, quae obiit May 7, 1762, 
set. 81. 

Margaretse filise quse obiit July 5, 1761, iEtat 55. 

Marise Eilise, quse obiit April 4, 1759, iEtat 45.” 

[Moved from north side of chancel.] 


“ Sacred to the memory of the Rev d George Augustus 
Legge, for eleven months vicar of this parish, and 
eldest son of the Hon ble and Rev d Augustus George 
Legge, Chancellor and Prebendary of Winchester, and 
Honora his wife. He was born July 8 th , 1801, mar¬ 
ried Aug st ~23 rd , 1825, Frances Augusta Bowyer, and 
died June 16, 1826.” 

[Above the inscription are the arms of Legge— 
viz., Az., a buck's head attired arg., having between 
the attires a ring ar. gemmed ruby; impaling 
quarterly, 

1. Or, a bend vaire, cotised azure. 

2. Sable, tffree spades paleways arg. 

Moved from the south side of chancel.] 






MONUMENTS. 


45 


“Near this place are deposited the remains of William 
Turbill, formerly of the Middle Temple, Gent. He 
departed this life the 16 th day of October, 1699, aged 
66. The same grave encloses Hannah his beloved 
wife, daughter of John Whitfield, late of this parish. 
Esq. She changed a frail mortality for eternity the 

7 th of February, 1711, aged 66.To perpetuate 

the memory of such parents, their youngest and only 
surviving son George, caus'd this monument to be 
erected." 

[Above is a shield, bearing the arms of Turbill— 
Chequy, or and gules, a fesse ermine; impaling the 
arms of Whitfield—viz.: Arg. a bend plain betw. 
two cotises engr. sable. 

Moved here from south side of chancel.] 


“ In memoriam Gulielmi Paule Militis, cujus cineres 
marmorea hac requiescunt urna sed evolavit anima 
Augustum spernens domicilium en mortis simul tri- 
umphans, et immortalitatis exemplar, quippe vita pie 
clausa periodum non habet sed fluit usque felicissima 
seternitate coronata abi lector et imitare summam erga 
principem fidelitatem egenis charitatem universis jus- 
ticiam cultum denique numinis religiosissimum prse 
omnibus celebrandum, sic tandem ad generosi hujus 
attingas finem, sine fine duraturum. Obiit Cal : Aug: 
Anno Christi 1685. iEtatis 53." 

[Arms on the upper part of this monument: Arg., 
on a cross engr. sable, 7 estoilles or. Brought from 
south side of chancel in I860.] 


“To the memory of John Hanger, of Bray in the County 
of Berks, Esq r . He died with a cheerful resignation 
to the will of God, March 18; 173§. Aged 77 years. 

.'This monument was erected by the 

Right Honorable Anne, Lady Coleraine, his eldest 
daughter." 

[Above, on a marble shield, are the arms of Hanger * 
—viz., Ermine, a griffin segreant, per fesse, or, and 
azure. Crest .—A demi-griffin segreant, or. 

Moved from south side of chancel in I860.] 







46 


MONUMENTS. 


“ Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Maria Slack, wife of 
Thomas Slack, Esq r , of Bray-wick Lodge. She died 
8 th of February, 1804, in her 52 nd year.” 

“ Sacred to the memory of Hester, wife of the late Henry 
Harford, Esq r , of Down Place, who departed this life 
May 17 th 1853, aged 78 years.” 

“ Sacred to the memory of Henry Harford, Esq r , of Down 
Place, Berks, who departed this life on the 8 th of De¬ 
cember, 1834, in the 76 th year of his age.” 


[In the Norris or St. Nicholas’ Chapel, on a massive marble 
monument, is the following inscription :—] 

“ Near this place lies the body of Mrs. Mary Hanger, second 
dau. and coheir of John Hanger, late of this parish, 
Esq r . She died after a tedious illness of many years 
.March 20 th , 173f, aged 35 years. 

Here also lieth the Body of Elizabeth, youngest dau. and 
coheir of John Hanger, Esq r , who died March 22, 
1744-5, aged 38 years. 

Likewise the Bight Hon ble Ann Lady Coleraine, Belict 
of Henry, Lord Coleraine, and eldest Dau. of John 
Hanger, Esq r , who died the 10 th January, 1754, aged 
53.” 


[Opposite this monument, on the floor, is a small brass plate 
thus inscribed:—] 

“ Three Sisters, Intirely Beloved of Each other, Insepa¬ 
rable when alive, and undivided in Death.” 


[The following inscriptions are on the floor of the north 
aisle, beginning at the west end :—] 

“ Here lieth the body of William Lowing, who departed 
this life January 28, 17f£, aged .... years.” 


“The entrance to the vault. 

Mrs. Martha Mason, Belict of Bobert Mason, Esq r , died 
July 16 th , 1814, aged 83 years. 

Here lieth the remains of Elizabeth Mason, who departed 
this life Sep r 10, 1787, aged 21 years. 










MONUMENTS. 47 

Also of Robert Mason, Esq r , who departed this life Oc¬ 
tober 8, 1812, aged 85 years. 

Also of Benjamin Mason, Esq r , who died Sep. 18 th , 1813, 
aged 82 years. 

Also of Mrs. Sarah Mason, Relict of the above Benjamin 
Mason, Esq 1 , who died July 4 th , 1817, aged 84 years.” 


“ Sacred to the memory of William Innes Pocock, Esq r , 
Lieut. R.N., formerly of Ives Place, who died at 
Reading, 13 th of March, 1836, aged 52. From an 
early life, until the Peace of 1814, he was actively 
engaged in professional duties. He married, 2 ndly , 
Elizabeth Anne, only daughter of Richard Pearson, 
M.D., by whom he had one son, who, with three 
daughters by his first wife, survive him.” 


"In memory of Anne, wife of William Innes Pocock, 
Lieut. R.N., only daughter of Thomas Wilson, Esq., 
of Ives Place, and Mary his wife. She departed this 
life, May 13 th 1825, in the 23 rd year of her age. She 
left three infant daughters.” 

[The two last are mural monuments.] 


“ Sub hac Petra tegitur Johannes Humffreyes. Ob 4 21 
Augusti, 1691, Anno iEtat Suse Yicessimo. 

Hee was the First Borne and onely Sone of M r Thomas 
Humffreyes, Cittizen of London, and Ironmonger in 
Ordinary to their late Mat s King Charles, and King 
James the 2 d , as also to their present Mat s King Wil¬ 
liam, and Queene Mary. 

He dyed in’s Tender yeares, but ripe in grace, 

Forsooke an Earthly for an Heavenly place 
Hee imitated most heroic actions, 

Lov’d England’s Church, But hated Factions. 


" Here lyeth the Body of Mary the wife of Henry Red- 
dington, of New Windsor, daughter of John Winch, 
Gent., of this Parish. She died November y e 6 th , 1731, 
in the 27 th year of her age. 

Also the Body of Henry, son of the above Henry and 
Mary Reddington, who died May 11 th , 1746, aged 18 
years. 







48 


MONUMENTS. 


Here also lyetli the Body of Mr. Henry Reddington, 
Husband of the aforesaid Mary Reddington, who de¬ 
parted this life December the 9^, 1759, aged 59 years.” 


“ Here lyeth the body of Mr. Richard Winch, of Fyfield 
House, Gent., who departed this life the 16 th day of 
June, Anno Domini 1722, aged 60 years.” 


“ Here tyeth the Body of Richard Winch, of Bray-wick, 
Gent., and Mary his wife. He died March 12, 1676. 

iEtat 53.She died.16 .. 0 set 51.” 

[Almost obliterated.] 


“ Here lyeth the Body of Mrs. Sarah Causton. She died 
March 4 th , 1794, aged 63 years.” ^ 

“ Here lyeth the Body of Ann, y e wife of James Hayes, of 
Bray, Esq r , who departed this life y e first of March, 
1709, aged 48 years. 

Here also lyeth William their Sonn, who died y e 7 th of 
May, 1695, being one year old. 

Here lie the Bodies of James Hayes, Esq r , and of Jane 
his wife: 

He* 3 1 died j 1 g th j September j j aged j j years 
Coelos affectat uterque. ,> 


Mitral Tablets in the South Aisle } beginning at the Mast end . 

[In the chapel of All Saints, above the door:—] 

“ Beneath are deposited the remains of Mrs. Elizabeth 
Gordon, many years an inhabitant of this neighbour¬ 
hood. She departed this life Feb y 1 st , 1788, in the 
67 th year of her age. 

In the same grave is also interred the body of her 
younger son, Mr. E. C. Gordon, with whom for up¬ 
wards of 3 years (under the sorest and most trying 
affliction) she lived a constant and tender nurse, afford¬ 
ing the most exemplary proof of maternal attachment. 
As a due and respectful tribute to the memory of this 
excellent woman, and most indulgent mother, this 
monument is erected by her surviving eldest son, the 
Rev d Sir Adam Gordon, Baronet.” 











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MONUMENTS. 


49 


[Beneath this monument and over the door is an 
ancient escutcheon in stone, evidently a fragment 
of a larger memorial to some member of the Loggin, 
or Logham family, of the manor of Stroud. The 
quarterings are— 

1 Loggins—Or, a lion courant sa., in chief three 

piles of the last. 

3 Staverton—Arg. a chevron, betw. 3 maunches 

vert. 

2 -... a greyhound courant within a 

4 -three Catherine >bordure 

wheels. J engrailed. 

Crest .—A stag’s hea*d, erased, gu.; attired, col¬ 
lared, and lined, or. 

{Now in St. Nicholas’s Chajjel.)'] 

[On a marble tablet recently moved from the north side of 
the nave: —] 

“ Near this pillar lietli the body of Bichard Webb, Esq 1 * 
late of Binfield, in this county, who died the 27 th of 
Nov r , 1818, aged 84. 

And also of Elizabeth, his wife, eldest daughter and co¬ 
heiress of Bobert Holden, Esq r , a Bencher of the 
Hon ble Society of Lincoln’s Inn, by his wife, Elizabeth, 
only surviving child of Bichard Winch, Gent., of Shop- 
penhangers, in this parish. This tablet is erected by 
Bichard HoldenWebb, Esq r , and Elizabeth Mary Webb.” 

“In memory of Mary, wife of Thomas Waghorne, Esq r , 
of Ilolyport, who departed this life, Jan y 19 th , 1826, in 
the 75 th year of her age. 

Also in memory of Thomas Waghorne, Esq r , of Holy- 
port, who departed this life February 24 th , 1832, in the 
81 st year of his age, whose remains, together with 
those of his wife, Mary, are deposited near the bottom 
of this aisle.” _ 

“ Near this place lieth interred y e Body of Simon Beckley, 
of London, Gent., who departed this life the 3 rd of 
September, 1723, in y e 64 year of his age. 

Here also lyeth y e Body of Humphrey, his only son, who 
died July the 23 rd , 1722, aged 31 years. To whose 
memory y e Belict of the abovesaid Simon Beckley, 
.caused this monument to be erected. [over. 







50 


MONUMENTS. 


Here also lyeth the Body of Elizabeth Beckley, Relict of 
the abovesaid Simon Beckley, who died Jan y the 29 th , 
1726: aged 64 years.” 

“ Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Mary Wilson, wife of 
Thomas Wilson, Esqr., of Ives Place, who died October 
13 th , 1818; aged 60 years. 

Also his only son, Thomas Wilson, who died May 19 th , 
1824, aged 23 years. 

Thomas Wilson, Esqr., who died April 14 th , 1829, aged 
85 years.” 

“ Sacred to the memory of Joseph Clarke, Esqr., of Maiden¬ 
head, in this parish, who departed this life August 2 nd , 
1852; aged 62 years.” 

[On a new white marble monument of beautiful workman¬ 
ship is the following inscription :—] 

“ Sacred to the memory of Henry Kemble, Esq r , of Grove 
Hill, Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, who de¬ 
parted this life on the 13 th of May, 1857, aged 69. 

Only a few months before his death, he followed to the 
grave his last surviving brother 
Edward Kemble, Esq r . 

Tenderly attached in life, they sleep together in death. 

Their remains are interred in a vault adjacent to this 
Church, together with those of the infant son and only 
child of Henry Kemble, Esq.” 

“ In memory of John Harrison, Esq r , of Foxley Grove, 
who died the 15 th of August, 1834, aged 64 years. 

Also of Mary Harrison his wife, who died the 16 th of 
November, 1844; aged 72 years. 

Also of Henry Arthur Harrison their son, who died the 
6 th of May, 1829, aged 21 years.” 

“Near this place are the remains of AnnBidleson, ob 4 25 
June, 1761. M. 62. 

John Bidleson, ob 4 14 Nov. 1761. JE. 69. 

And their Son 

Thomas Bidleson, ob 4 18 Feb y 1762. iE. 30. 

In memory thereof this monument was erected by the 
surviving son, John Bidleson.” 








MONUMENTS. 


51 


“ Near this place lie interred the remains of Thomas Lit- 
tledale, Esq r , of London, formerly of Rotterdam, who 
departed this life at Braywick Lodge, on the 6 th of 
November, 1809, aged 65 years. 


Also the remains of Anne Elizabeth Littledale, his wife, 
who died 9 th of May, 1814, aged 61 years.” 


[On a handsome monument of white and black marble, for¬ 
merly on the north side of the chancel, is the following in¬ 
scription :—] 

“ Propter hunc Murum positse Resurgent 
Exuviae Edmundi Whitfield, S. T. B. 
utriusque Regalis Collegii Cantabrigiae, 
iEtonae Dilectissimi Socii; 

Fide, Dodtrina, moribus suavissimus 
Longum memorabilis, Humo deponitur 
quod mori potuit; viget perennis inter 
Coelites anima inter superstites fama, inter 
propinquos amicos, inter triste desiderium 
obiit variolis 25° Januarii 1693. 
iEtat. 44.” 

[Beneath are the arms of Whitfield—viz., Argent, 
a bend plain, between two cotises engrailed sable.] 


[At the west end of the south aisle is a double tablet of white 
marble thus inscribed :—] 

“ Sacred to the memory of Sir John Phillimore, Post 
Captain in the Royal Navy, Knight Companion of 
the Bath, Aide de Camp to Her Majesty. Born Jan. 
18 th , 1781. Died March 21 st , 1840. An officer of 
rare talents and distinguished bravery : qualities which 
often shone forth during the late war, but never more 
conspicuously than during the engagement of the 
jEurotas with the Clorinde , a memorable action which 
shed imperishable lustre upon his name, and in which 

he was desperately wounded. 

Sacred to the memory of Catharine Harriett, Daughter 
of Admiral Baron de Raigersfield, and widow of Sir 
John Phillimore, R.N., C.B. Born Nov. 1809. Mar¬ 
ried Feb. 1830. Died Nov. 30, 1841. Aged 33 years.” 


e 2 







MONUMENTS. 


[Monuments on the floor of the south aisle, beginning at 
the west end :—] 

. . . Body of ... . Miller . . . 21 st .... 1754.” 

[Extract from the Ch. Register —"Burials, 1754. 
Nov. 28. Mr. William Miller of the Parish of St. 
James’ Westminster.”] 


" Mrs. Anne Stacey died June 21 st , 1759, aged 63 years. 

Captain William Stacey, Died July 31 st , 1759, aged 32 
years. 

Miss Ann Stacey, Died Dec r 5 th , 1752, aged 39 years. 

Miss Henrietta Stacey, Died Dec r 29 th , 1765, aged 29 
years.” 

“ Here lieth the body of John Howland of Maidenhead, 
in this Parish, Esq r , who was born at St. Albans in y e 
County of Hertford. He departed this life y e third 
day of January, in the 67 th year of his age, and in y e 
year of our Lord God 1687. 

Here lyeth also interred the Body of M rs Elizabeth 
Howland, the widdow and Relict of the said John 
Howland, Esq r . She departed this life the 12 th day of 
July 1702, and in the 84 th year of her age.” 

[Above is a shield of the arms of Howland (granted 
in 1584)—viz., Argt. 2 bars sable, in chief 3 lions 
rampant of the second, impaling the arms of Pem¬ 
berton, viz., Argt. a chev. betw. 3 water buckets sa., 
hoops, or.] 

[On the floor of the nave, near the pulpit, are the following 
monuments, all of which have been removed from the chancel:— 

"Here lies the body of John Whitfield, Esq., whose life 
was an exemplary scene of mortality, as his death was 
of Christianity, which happened on the first of June, 
1727, in the 79 th year of his age. 

Here also lies the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Whitfield, wife 
to the said John Whitfield, Esq., and daughter of 
John Howland, Esq 1 ’. She died y e 23 of April 1680, 
in the 32 year of her age. 

And also the body of Mrs. Mary Whitfield, their last 
surviving daughter, who died the 25 th of March, 1752, 
aged 77.” 





MONUMENTS. 


53 


[Above are the arms of Whitfield impaling How¬ 
land.] _ 

“ In a vault beneath this stone lyes interred the body of 
Dame Judith Werden, wife of Sir John Werden of 
Hollyport in this county, Bart.; who departed this 
life on the 5 th day of May, Anno Domini 1726, in the 
42 year of her age. 

Underneath this stone also lyes interred the Bodj' of Dame 
Elienor Werden, 3 rd wife of the abovesaid Sir John 
Werden, Bart., who departed this life, March the 24 th 
Anno Dni. 173§, in the 28 th year of her age.” 

[Arms—Gules on a bend arg. three leopards’ 
heads of the field. Werden. 

Arg. on a chev. betw. 3 lozenges sable, 
3 stags’ heads, or. 

Arg. on a chevron sable, three quatre- 
foils, or. 

Gules, a cross moline, or. 

The blazonry copied from Sir Thomas Reeve’s 
Collections.] 

“ Here lieth y® body of James Paule, Esq 1 ’., of Bray wick 
in this county. Obiit March 30,1693. 

Near this place also lieth two of his sons, Thomas and 
Christopher. Thomas obiit 13 th April, 1688. Chris¬ 
topher obiit 22 June, 1694. 

To whose memory this stone is dedicated by William 
Paule, Esq r ., eldest son of the said James Paule. Anno 
1694. 

Here also lyeth the body of James Paule, Gent., second 
son of y e said James Paule, who died at his chambers 
in y® Middle Temple, London; 27 th July 1699, JEtat 
23.’’ _ 

“ Beneath this stone is deposited the earthly part of John 

Orlebar, Esq r .Master in Chancery, who died 

June 5 th , 1721. 

Also the body of Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John 
Whitfield of Maidenhead, Esq r . She died Nov r . 19 th , 
1724, in the ... . year of her age.” 

[Now partly covered by the pulpit.] 







54 


MONUMENTS. 




“ In memory of Henry Partridge, Alderman of London, 
who died 13 th December, 1066, aged 62. 

[The letters in the name Henry Partridge form 
the initial letters of an acrostic verse as follows :—] 

H eroic souls like airy birds hate the cage, 

E ndeaueringe freedome from there pilgrimage. 

N o wonder then this took wing and flew away, 

R esting here his corps till resurrection day. 

Y ee cag’d body’d birds, adieeu ; my freed soul sings 
P raises in heavens quire to the King of Kings. 

A Phenix Doue & Partridge : to all three in one 
R ar’ty inn’cence & char’ty ah griefe dead & gone 
T is sad ’tis false, he hath wisely built his nest. 

R eader, twere well if with him thou wert at rest 
I nn that secure throne where neither care nor feare 
D urst approach, yea death itself a stranger there. 

G ood friends, our time is short, let’s then strive to save 
E ach man his soule when body’s thrown into grave.” 

[Beneath, on the same stone, is the following in¬ 
scription :—] 

“ Here lyeth alsoe Interred the Bodye of Henry Partridge, 
sonne of the above named Henry Partridge, who died 
High Sherrife of this County the 5 th day of Jan y , Anno 
Dom. 1670, Anno Etatis Sue 34.” 

[On this stone are engraven the arms of Par¬ 
tridge, thus:— 

Gu. on a fesse between three partridges rising or, 
as many torteaux, in the centre chief a pheon 


“ Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of Ascanius 
Williams of Cannon Hill in this parish, who died Oct. 
y e 24, 1789, aged 39 years.” 


u Sub ter jacet Devoniensis Eranciscus Carswell sacrse 
Theologiae Doctor. Regibus Carolo 2 do et Jacobo 2 do 
Capellanus; Ecclesise de Remnam, Rector. Hujus Bi- 
brocensis Vicarius 42 annos. iEtatis suae 70. Obiit 
24 Aug. 1709;” 

[Above the inscription is a shield of his arms— 
viz., Sa. a bend) or; over all, a label of 5 points 

ar g-] _ 


u Here lieth the body of Mrs. Sarah Partridge, youngest 
daughter of Henry and Ann Partridge. She departed 
this life the 17 th day of March, 170 J, iEtatis 59.” 






MONUMENTS. 


55 


[On a slab of black marble :—] 

“ Here lieth interred the body of Mrs. Ann Partridge, 
who was wife of Mr. Henry Partridge y e elder, late of 
this parish. Shee departed this life the 20 th day of 
July, 1674, and aged 69 years. 

Here also lieth interred the body of Mrs. Hannah Par¬ 
tridge, daughter of the above named Henry and Anne. 
She departed this life the 26 day of July, 1691, and 
aged 49 yeares.” 

Additional Inscriptions in the Church . 

[In the north aisle:—] 

“ Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of the Rev d 
George Knox, D.D., of the County of Donegal, in the 
Kingdom of Ireland, and the Rector of Lilford in the 
diocese of Derry, who departed this life, the 23 rd of 
December, 1795, in the 68 year of his age.” 

“ Here lieth the body of Ann, the wife of Richard Winch, 
of Shoppenhangers, who died Jan y 20 th , 1725, aged 35 
years.” _ 

“ Here lyeth y e Body of Elizabeth Noke, the wife of John 
Noke, and daughter of Humfrey Beckley, who departed 
this life the 4 th of March, 1724, aged 36 years.” 

[Restored from the Register] 

“ Here lieth the body of Mrs. Maria Sophia Hillebrant, of 
this parish, widow, who died the 29 th of March, 1793, 
aged 76 years. 

Also the body of Lady Hearne, the daughter of the 
above, who died 30 th of March, 1814, aged 62. 

Also of the said Sir William Hearne, Kt., who died Dec. 
20, 1838, aged 93.” 

[In the nave :—] 

“ Underneath this stone lies the body of Whitshed Keene, 
Esq., late of Sackville-street, London, sometime 
‘ Father of the House of Commons/ who died at Haw¬ 
thorn Hill, in this parish, on the 27 th of February, 
1822, in the 91 st year of his age.” 

[On a slab of black marble, now lying in the tower :—] 

« Here lieth interred the bodies of Thomas Day, Gent., 
who died the 1 st of July 1749 ; aged 81 years. [otier; 








56 


MEMORIAL WINDOWS. 


Also Sarah, his wife, who died the 21 of Feb y , 1759, aged 
80 years. 

Also Mrs. Katharine Hilly, their daughter, who died the 
29 th of May, 1761, aged 50 years. 

Also Mary, the wife of Ralph Day, Gent., who died the 
26 Feb y 1765, aged 48 years. 

Mr. Ralph Day, died Sep r 28, 1772, aged 65. 

Also Joana Day, who died March 12 th , 1794, aged 
80 years. 

Also Elizabeth Day, who died Dec r 31, 1796, aged 81 
years. 

Amy Day, died April 1 st , 1804, aged 82 years.” 


[In the south aisle :—] 

" Here lyeth interred y e body of Elizabeth, y e wife of 
Ionathan Atwater. Obiit 27 October, 1677. Anno 
-dEtatis, 53.” _ 

[Formerly in the chancel:—] 

“ Here lieth the body of Richard Whitfield, Esq., who was 
the third son of John Whitfield, Esq., of Maidenhead. 
He departed this life January the 6 th , 1729, in the 
74 th year of his age.” 


[Formerly in the nave :—] 

“ In memory of Charles Scudamore Ward, Esq., who died 
7 th of October, 1835, aged 68 years.” 


“ Duncan Macfarlane, Esq., died at his residence near 
Maidenhead Bridge, in this Parish, 18 Feb y , 1829, and 
is buried underneath.” 


Jift mortal 22Htntfofos>. 

Chancel Window.— Designed by G. E. Street, Esq.; exe¬ 
cuted by Weales, of Newcastle; erected by John Hibbert, 
Esq., of Braywick Lodge, to the memory of his father. 

Subjects: —1. Judas bargaining with the Chief Priests. 
2. Jesus washing the Disciples’ Feet. 3. Institution of the 
Eucharist. 4. The Agony. 5. The Betrayal. 6. Jesus 
buffeted. 7. Way of Sorrows. 8. The Crucifixion. 9. The 
Descent from the Cross. 10. The Burial. 







MONUMENTS DISCOVERED IN 1860. 


57 


On a brass plate beneath the window is the following in¬ 
scription :—“ In memory of John Hibbert, who deceased the 
eleventh of September, 1855, aged 87.” 

Window at West End oe North Aisle. —Designed and 
executed by O’Connor; erected by John J. Coney, Esq., of 
Braywick Grove. 

Subjects: —Mary at the Feet of Jesus. Christ the Re- 
deemer. Hagar and Ishmael.—In the upper part of the 
window, the Adoration of the Lamb. 

Inscriptions {on the glass ) :— “ Eliza Monro Coney, Died 
26 Jan y , 1858 .”—“ Philip George Coney, Died 30 April, 
1858.”— {On a brass plate beneath the window :)— “ In memo- 
riam Conjugis desideratissimse filiique dilectissimi, Hanc Fe- 
nestram ponendam curavit Johannes Jeane Coney, A.D. 1860.” 

East Window oe All Saints’ Chapel. —Designed and 
executed by Lavers and Barraud; erected by E. II. Palmer, 
Esq., Canon Hill. 

Subjects : —Christ the King of Saints; beneath are the Four 
Evangelists. St. Peter walking on the Sea. St. John leaning 
on Christ’s bosom. Mary at the Feet of Jesus. Incredulity 
of St. Thomas. Martyrdom of St. Stephen. Lydia re¬ 
ceiving SS. Paul and Silas into her house at Philippi. SS. 
Mary, John, and Mary Magdalene at the Foot of the Cross. 
St. Paul at Melita. In medallions are figures of St. Cuthbert, 
St. Etheldreda, St. Hilda, and the Major Prophets. 

Beneath, on a brass plate, is the following inscription:— 
“ Ad Dei gloriam, et in memoriam Johanni Horsley Palmer, 
qui obiit apud Fulham, die septimo Februarii, a.d. 1858, et 
Elizabethte uxoris ejus, quse obiit apud Fulham die vicesimo 
secundo Junii, a.d. 1839. Filius eorum Edwardus Howley 
Palmer, hujusce sedis cancellum cum sacello omnibus sanctis 
dicato instauravit, a.d. 1860. Requiem seternam dona eis 
Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.” 


Jitomuiunts &t'srobcvci3 tu i 860 . 

1. A large slab of Purbeck marble, bearing the following 
marginal inscription in Lombardic capitals :■—• 

“ III AN : II ERE WARD : GIST : ICI : DIEY : 

DE : SA : ALME : EYT : MERCE : AMEN 
[He was one of the residents of Maidenhead, in Bray, who 
deputed Will: le Ilosebunde and Will: de laRokele, to confer 


58 


LIST OF VICARS. 


with the Bp/s Commissaries respecting the appointment of the 
services to be celebrated in Maidenhead Chapel, after the re¬ 
laxation of the interdict imposed by the Abp. of Canterbury 
in 1324.—(Vide Gorham’s Maicl.) 

He seems to have died in 1339, when " Johannes fil: Johis: 
Hereward** is first named in the Bolls. In 1341, Maria, wife 
of John de Hamstede, is named as the executrix of the will of 
John Hereward, of Bray. In 1336, Bichard Hereward is 
mentioned as one of the canons of Cirencester.— (B. C. B.) 

1395, John Hereward died, seised of the estates formerly 
belonging to Boger and Walter de Wodemancote. Heriot —a 
horse saddled and bridled. Relief 16 s 6 d . Alice, hisdau. and 
heiress, succeeded to his estates.— ( CooJcham C. jR.)] 

2. A coffin lid of the 13th century, bearing the following 
inscription on a raised margin, found in the east wall of All 
Saints* Chapel:— 

" ICI : GIST : WILLAME : LE : FIZ : S A... ABI : 
LESSCOLEB : DE : STANE : q<» 

[" Sachari,** or " Zachery,** is clearly the surname, and 
" Lesscoller,** the adjunct; perhaps equivalent to "The Clerk/* 
or " The Scholar,** of Stanes.] 

3. A broken slab of Purbeck marble, lying by the side of 
Sir John Foxley*s memorial in All Saints* Chapel, bearing the 
matrix of a fine military brass of the 14th century, single 
canopy, marginal inscription. 

4. Three coffin lids of stone, bearing crosses, but without 
inscriptions. 


3Lfet of tlje IXtrarg of Brag, 

(GORHAM’S), 

WITH ADDITIONS BY C. K. 

1 Beinbald, living at Doomsday Survey, a.d. 1081. 

2 Boger, living in 1288.—( B . C. R.) 

[The above are not named by Gorham.] 

3 Henry de Chilbalton, instituted 1301. Living in 1324. 

4 Boger de Crossby, instituted 1327. Living 1337. 

5 William [(surname " Scherreve,**) "of Co: Hereford/* 

1368.—(. B . C. R.) He died 48 Edward III., about the 
Feast of Epiphany (1375). "Compertu est per inquis* 
de sectator* cur* qd Wills Scherreve nuper Vicarius 
de Ever (Iver) non obiit seisitus in null* ten* per que 
dns hiettu* debuisset habere.**—(C. K, from B. C. i?.)] 


VICARS. 


59 


6 John Dray, resigned 1382, removed to Cookham. 

7 Thomas Gernon, instituted 15 July, 1382. Died 1396. 

8 William Dyer, M.A., instituted 1396; died 1440. 

Buried at Bray. 

9 Robert Maneelde, late Vicar of Cookham; instituted 

20 February, 1440-1; resigned 1443. 

10 Thomas Pashe, instituted 12 October, 1443; resigned 

1444. 

11 Thomas Topolye, instituted 22 February, 1443-4; re¬ 

signed same year. 

12 Thomas Luyde, instituted 21 December, 1444; died 1454. 

13 William Morys, instituted 26 August, 1454; died 1478-9. 

14 Thomas Piiilippis, instituted 5 March, 1478-9; resigned 

1497. 

15 John Perkwyn, instituted 4 April, 1497. 

16 John Halle, resigned in 1504. 

17 Richard Watts, instituted 17 July, 1504; died 1520-1. 

18 John Mogeryge, instituted 20 March, 1520-1 ; resigned 

1523. 

19 Symon Symonds, instituted 14 March, 1522-3. 

20 Simon Dillin? (Allen or Aleyn) died 1565. (“ Canon 

of Windsor. This is he of whom y e Prouerb ‘ The Vicar 
of Bray still.’” —Gough, Berks , 26, Steele's Collec., p. 21, 
Bodleian.) 

21 Henry Cranshawe, instituted 17 July, 1565 ; presented 

by the Queen. 

22 David Tuke, resigned 1599. 

23 Edward Cranceshawe, instituted 4 April, 1599; presented 

by the Queen. 

24 Edward Botjgiiton, instituted 18 November, 1621; pre¬ 

sented by John, Bishop of Oxford; he occurs 1635. 

25 [“Mr. Hezekiah Woodward is the vicar and present in¬ 

cumbent, and hath a vicarage house, and y e small tythes, 
worth about three-score pounds per ann.”—From Survey 
of Rectory } dated 1650. Hark MS., 7017.—C. K.] 

26 Francis Carswell, died in 1709. Buried at Bray. 

27 Thomas Brown, instituted 29 September, 1709 j presented 

by William, Bishop of Oxford; died 1759* Buried at 
Bray* 

28 George Berkeley, M.A., instituted 29 September, 1759 ; 

presented by Archbishop of Canterbury, who had a grant 
of the patronage pro liac vice , from the Bishop of Oxford; 
he resigned in 1769 for Cookham* 


60 BRAY CHAUNTRY. 

29 Hox. George Hamilton, late Vicar of Cookham, instituted 

10th March, 1768-9; presented by Robert, Bishop of 
Oxford. He was 4th son of James, 7th Earl of Aber- 
corn. In 1753 he was presented by his brother to the 
rectories of Tagheyon and Donaghadee; Canon of Wind¬ 
sor, Prebendary of Salisbury, and Rector of Taplow, 
where he died in 1787. 

30 Edward Townshend, M.A., instituted 21 December, 1787, 

presented by John, Bishop of Oxford. He had previously 
been presented to the Rectory of Henley-on-Thames in 
1784, by Mrs. Cornwallis; died in 1822. Buried at Bray. 

31 Walter Levett, M.A., instituted 1822; presented by 

Bishop of Oxford; resigned in 1825. 

32 George Augustus Legge, instituted 1825 ; presented by 

Bishop of Oxford, He was the grandson of William, 
2nd Earl of Dartmouth, and nephew to Edward, Bishop 
of Oxford. He married (1825) Augusta Bowyer, eldest 
daughter of William Bowyer Atkins, Esq., of Bray wick 
Grove, where he died in 1826. Buried at Bray. 

33 Walter Levett, M.A., instituted 1826 ; presented by the 

Bishop of Oxford. He had previously been presented in 
1816 by his College, Christ Church, Oxford, to the 
Vicarage of Carlton, in Yorkshire. Subdean of York. 
Resigned in 1853. Died at his house at Castle Hill, in 
Reading, Sunday, October 28, 1860. Buried at Bray. 

34 James Edward Austen Leigh, presented by Samuel, 

Bishop of Oxford, in 1853. 


©fiauntvy of t&e 13. V. iWary, at 33ra|j. 

On the north side of the churchyard, and within its pre¬ 
cincts, stands the ancient chauntry chapel of Bray; converted 
about the year 1683, by William Cherry, Esq., into a parish 
school-house, for which purpose it was used until the erection 
of the new school buildings at Holyport. 

The building is of the Early Decorated style, circa 1300, 
and is therefore coeval with the most ancient portions of the 
church. There is a handsome piscina near the east end in 
the south wall. Many interments have taken place within 
the building in ancient times. The stones (evidently grave¬ 
stones) were removed in 1631, as appears by an entry in the 
old church accounts. The old layer of grouting remains un¬ 
disturbed beneath the present floor. 

The following lists of individuals in holy orders have been 


CHAUNTllY CHAPLAINS. 


Cl 


collected by the author from the B. C. B. The first list is of 
those who are termed chaplains—unquestionably of this 
chauntry; the second is a list of those termed clerks, but as 
the chaplains are also termed clerks, it is possible that some of 
these may have been chaplains also:— 

©fiaplafas. 

1 Thomas atte Grenedotjne, living in 1297. 

2 John de Slouttre, “ Capellanus,” 1833. Named, with 

several other individuals, in the view of Frank Pledge, at 
Bray. 

3 Elias . 24 Edwd. III. (1351). 

Paid for the pasturage of his ox in that year, in the 
demesne pastures. 

4 John de Wynchecombe, “of the county of Gloucester,” 

mentioned in 1359. 

5 Walter atte Reddiche, mentioned asliving before 1368,in 

an entry of that date. 

G Richard Siierreve, is named with William Sherreve, 
Yicar, in 1362; living in 1370, when he held the wood 
called “ Russhynden.” (Between Bray wick and Maiden¬ 
head, on the hill side.— See BraywicJc.) 

From another entry, it seems that Rushenden at that 
time belonged to the Abbot of Cirencester. 

7 John Boyndon, one of the principal suitors in 1370 and 

1372. Fine 12 d . 

8 Thomas Gernon. In 1373 named as executor of the will 

of Tho. Ilyvyndene. Held land near Wades-lane and 
Prattes-lane, in Holyport, the same year.—(See Hendons .) 

See List of Vicars .—Thomas Gernon, of the county 
of “ Rotlond,” was Yicar of Cookham in 1368.— 
(B. C. B.) 

9 John Pyk, named in 1375 and 6. 

10 John Walle, in 1424, held the lands, &c. formerly 

belonging to John Hynden. 

2 Hen. VI. Ad istf cur’ ven’ Joftes Walle, clericus, 
et fecit dne ffideliF pro ill terris et ten* que nuper 
fueF Almaric* Mathany, et Alicie uxoris eius, fil 
Jollis Hynden et hered' Elense Hynden.” 

11 Thomas atte Lude. Died circa 1440.— (See Monuments.) 

Anno 1433. “ Thomas Pankebourn, tithingman of 

Maidenhead, presented that Thom: atte Lude, clerk, 
had not repaired his fences at Wyndounhull, between 
the highway and the land of the Prior of Bisham.” 
(B. C. A.) 



62 


CHAUNTRY CHAPLAINS. 


T. P. also presented that he had not cleansed his ditch 
between “ Ffordlese” and “ Dunmed.” 

12 Richard Miller, named in 1487, as living long before that 

time. 

13 Thomas Chambour, living 1475. 

14 John Sennermyn, died in 1493, when.he was succeeded by 

15 Richard Wattys, according to the following entry:— 

Anno 8 Hen: YIl. “Ad hanc cur" ven’ Ricus Wattys 
Ciicus & fecit Dne fidelit’ pro omnibus illis terris et 
tents que pertinent Cantarie de Bray nuper in tenur 
Johis Sennermyn Clici et admissus est inde tenens/’ &c. 

—(5. c. n.) 

This is the only entry in the Rolls in which “ the lands 
belonging to the chauntry of Bray” are so distinctly 
alluded to. This Richard occurs in 1493, in the 
account of the assault made on his servant Thomas, 
by Walter Elinore, at Bray. 

16 Richard Webster. Living 1498. 

17 William Staverton (son of Ralph and Elizabeth Stav : 

of Stroud Hall in Bray, and great grandson of Will. 
Staverton and Eliz. Cyfrewast, living in 1426 at Stroud). 
The last of the chauntry priests at Bray. Did fealty in 
1509 for his lands called “ Pulters.” Appoint 11 collector 
of the King’s rents, in 1528, for the lands he held called 
“ Whytis,” alias “ Punters.” 

A royal grant was made to this chauntry, Anno 25 Hen. VI. 
(1447.)— (Rot, Bat . M. 26.) 

The following valuation of the chauntry is from the “ Valor 
Ecclesiasticus,” temp. Hen. VIII.:— 

£ s. d. 

“ Cantar’ ibm Wittus Stafferton, incumb’ xi xv i 

X ma inde. xxiii vi” 

Annual value before the dissolution . . . 12 18 7 

William Staverton was living in 1555, when he was allowed 
a yearly pension of £6 8$. 4 d. 

“ Wiitm. Staffartoune, incumb nup Cant’ Be’ Marie in 
Bray, p a vj li. viij>. iiij d. — (Orig. Pension Boll. 2^3 
Phil, and Mary. Addit. MSS. 8102. Brit. Mns .) 

HtSt Of (ElcrfcS, (from the B. C. B.) 

Several of the Clerks appear to have officiated at the Her¬ 
mitage Chapel of St. Leonard, which was situated near 



LIST OF CLERKS. 


63 


East Oakley in Bray. A field anciently called “ Her met 
Reading,” and now corruptly “ Armer,” or “ Harmit Read¬ 
ings,” on the confines of the parish of Clewer, belonged to 
this chapel.—See Hundred Bolls y Anno 1272 :—“ They also 
say that the Hermit of Losfeld holds three acres of land in 
the manor of Bray of the gift of our Lord King Henry III.” 

On the Patent Boll , 13th Edward II., there is a grant to 
John the Hermit of Losfeld in Windsor Forest, to enclose 
some land, parcel of the forest. 

1 Andrew de Odeneye, living in 1337. 

2 John de Bokhurst, living in 1338, one of the creditors 

of Adam and William Baroun, the executors of Emma, 
the widow of Walter le Ffrensh, of Maidenhead. 

3 Peter Turry (11th Edward III. 1338.) 

4 John Squyer, witness to a deed between John de Winche- 

combe, chaplain, and John Brid, Anno 1359. 

5 Thomas de Oldyngton, living 1376. 

6 Tho. Cook, 1376. 

7 William Mitchell, named in 1444; one of the principal 

suitors in 1450, when he held the land called Philip 
Laycy’s; living in 1461. 

8 David Hopton, anno 1489. “ David Hopton ciicus deb 

escur’ quoddm fossat’ sum jacent apud Este Okeley in 
Dydworth Lane apud Armet Rydyng.”— (B. C. B.) The 
same complaint was made in 1490. 

A similar presentment was made against the hermit 
of 1432. 

“Est Okeley. Job M 9 ssh dec’ p 9 s qd quodd fossat’ in 
Hermetteffeld non escuP in defecP heremiP de Losfeld. 
Id circo ipe in mia.” 

9 Hugh Ffrance, 13 Henry VII. (1498.) 

10 Baldwin Boteler, 1487. In 1498 he held the lands 

called Westwoods, and in the same year, the land east of 
“ Queene wharfe,” adjoining Down Place. 

11 John Sparke, ei clericus,” and Robert Manfeld, Esq., 27 

March, 1499, did homage for the land formerly Hakker’s; 
a copyhold. 

12 “ Robert’ Staper dehet emendare unu fossat’ apud Her- 

metredyng. Id circo p’ est ei emendare sub pen’ xl d . 
anno 1506.” 

13 John Oxenbrigge, in 1522, held large estates in Bray, 

Cookham, Clewar, Wynkefield, Dydworth , Loryng, and 
Old Windsor. 


04 


BRAY SCHOOL. 


Uraj) Scljool. 

Extract from Chancery Decree, dated 1 June, 1717. 

“ William Cherry, late of Shottesbrook, Esq r ., did about 
thirty-five yeares since, at his own charge/^convert an old 
chappell standing in the churchyard of the Parish of Bray, 
&c., into a schoole room and library, and did place in several 
schoolmasters with the allowance of £20 a year for the teaching 
20 poor boys gratis, but falling afterwards into some trouble, 
and having contracted great debts upon his estate, he did for 
several years before his death, which happened in 1705, with¬ 
draw the said allowance, and did not appoint any schoolmaster 
there; but by his will dated 30 th August, 1703, devised 
several lands, &c., in the said will mentioned, to trustees for 
the payment of his debts; and did by his will appoint, that 
‘ when the debts due and owing by him should be paid, and 
the debts due and owing to him out of the Duke of Bucking¬ 
ham’s estate should be gotten in/ then his will was ‘ that a 
rent charge of £20 per annum, or lands to the clear yearly 
value of £20 should be settled towards the maintenance of a 
schoolmaster at Bray School at the discretion of his son 
Francis, if he should die before he settled a school there/ and 
made Chas. Austen and Matthew Holden since deceased, 
executors and trustees.” 

With the sum of £500, the executors purchased the estate 
at Bray Woodside, which now produces £30 per ann. 

On the 31st January, 1803, Townley Ward, Esq., gave the 
sum of £100 to the School Trustees, to be placed in the funds 
at 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities, in the names of the Rev. 
Edward Townshend and Thomas Slack, Esq., for the augmen¬ 
tation of the master’s salary. The interest'—viz., £1 9 s. Id., 
is received by the Yicar half-yearly, and paid by him to the 
Master. 

Besides the above endowments, the old school premises at 
Bray produce £5 per annum, which, is added to the school 
funds, and a considerable sum is obtained by annual subscrip¬ 
tions, and a yearly collection in church. 

As the old school was situated at an extremity of the parish, 
it was resolved in 1848 to erect a new one in a more central 
situation; accordingly, a subscription was set on foot, and the 
Fishmongers’ Company having kindly given the ground, the 
present structure was erected at Ilolyport at a cost of about 
£700. 


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BRAY SCHOOL DEED. 


G 5 


In 1857, the schoolroom was enlarged, and a preparatory 
school added to the original building at the cost of £417 16s. 5 d., 
towards which John Hibbert, Esq., contributed £269 16s. 5 d., 
and the remaining sum of £148 was granted by the Committee 
of Council on Education. 

Copy of The Bray and Holyport School Deed preserved in 
the Iron Chest in the Vestry of Bray Church . 

" We, the Wardens and Commonalty of The Mystery oe 
Fishmongers of the City oe London, under the authority of 
an Act passed in the Fifth year of the reign of Her Majesty 
Queen Victoria, entitled 'An Act to afford further Facilities 
for the Conveyance and Endowment of Sites for Schools/ and 
of the Act of the Eighth year of the reign of Her Present 
Majesty, explaining the same, do hereby, in consideration of 
five shillings to us paid. Grant and Convey unto the Arch¬ 
deacon of Berkshire and the Vicar of the Parish of Bray, in 
the County of Berkshire, for the time being, all that southern 
portion of a close or field called Brook Croft, containing three 
roods and one pole, belonging to the said Wardens and Com¬ 
monalty of the Mystery of Fishmongers of the City of London, 
late in the occupation of Charles Fuller, Esq., and situate at 
Holyport in the Parish of Bray aforesaid, which said Premises 
are delineated in the map drawn in the margin hereof, and 
herein coloured ' green/ together with all easements, appur¬ 
tenances, and hereditaments corporeal and incorporeal be¬ 
longing thereto or connected therewith, and all our Estate, 
Right, Title, and Interest in or to the same Premises, To hold 
the same unto, and to the use of the said Archdeacon of Berk¬ 
shire and Vicar of Bray, and their respective successors, for 
the purposes of the said first recited Act, and upon trust to 
permit the said Premises and all buildings thereon erected, or 
to be erected, to be for ever hereafter appropriated and used 
for a school for the education of Children and Adults, or 
Children only, for the labouring, manufacturing, and other 
poorer classes in the Parish of Bray aforesaid, and for no other 
purpose, which said school shall always be in union with, and 
conducted upon the principles, and in furtherance of the ends 
and designs of the Incorporated National Society for Pro¬ 
moting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the 
Established Church. Provided always that no Child whose 
Parent or Guardian shall object thereto, shall be required to 
learn the Church Catechism, or to attend any Sunday School 


60 


BRAY SCHOOL DEED. 


or place of worship to which respectively his or her parent or 
guardian shall on religious grounds object, but the selection of 
such Sunday School and place of worship shall in all cases be 
left to the free choice of such parent or guardian without the 
child's thereby incurring any loss of the benefits or privileges 
of the school. And it is hereby declared that the said 
school shall be at all times open to the inspection of the In¬ 
spector or Inspectors for the time being, appointed, or to be 
appointed in conformity with the Order in Council, bearing 
date the Tenth day of August, One Thousand Eight Hundred 
and Forty, And subject to, and in conformity with the Decla¬ 
ration aforesaid, the said school and premises, and where no 
other Disposition is made, the funds or endowments thereof 
shall be directed, controlled, governed, and managed in manner 
hereafter specified; that is to say, the Minister for the time 
being of the said Parish, or, in his absence, his Curate, shall 
have the superintendence of the moral and religious instruc¬ 
tion of the scholars attending the said school; and in case 
any difference should arise between the said Minister and 
Curate and the Committee of Management, hereinafter men¬ 
tioned, respecting the religious instruction of the scholars, or 
any regulation connected therewith, the said Minister or Cu¬ 
rate, or any member of the said Committee of Management, 
may cause a statement of the matter in difference to be laid 
before the Bishop of the Diocese in writing, a copy of such 
statement having been previously communicated to the said 
Committee of Management, also to the Minister or Curate if 
not prepared by him, the said Bishop may inquire concerning 
and determine the matter in difference, and the decision of 
the Bishop of the Diocese in writing thereon, when laid before 
the said Committee of Management, shall be final and con¬ 
clusive upon the matter. But in all other respects, the 
management, direction, controul, and government of the said 
School and Premises, and of the Funds or Endowments 
thereof, and the selection, appointment, and dismissal of the 
Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress, and their assistants, shall 
be vested in and exercised by a Committee consisting of the 
Minister of the said Parish for the time being, his licensed 
Curate or Curates, if the Minister shall appoint him or them 
upon the said Committee, and of Eight persons, of whom the 
following (all of the County of Berks) shall be the first ap¬ 
pointed; namely, John Jeane Coney, of Braywick Grove, 
Esq r ; Charles Sawyer, of Hey wood Lodge, Esq r ; John Hib- 
bert, of Braywick Lodge, Esq r ; Joseph Clark, of Bray, Esq r ; 


BRAY SCHOOL DEED. 


67 


Charles Williams, of the Chauntry, Esq r ; Robert Micklem, 
of Fifield, Esq r ; Edward Smith, of Lowbooks, Esq r ; and 
Thomas Newell Shackel, of Ockwells, Esq r , the said last men¬ 
tioned persons continuing to be members of the Church of 
England; and any vacancy which may occur in the number 
of persons last mentioned, by death, resignation, incapacity, 
or otherwise, shall be filled up by the election of a person or 
persons being members of the Church of England; such elec¬ 
tion to be vested in the remaining members of the said Com¬ 
mittee, until the Bishop of the Diocese in which the school 
is situate shall, in writing, direct that such person or persons 
shall he elected by the Subscribers to the said school, and 
thereupon the election shall be vested in the Subscribers to 
the said school to the amount of ten shillings per annum at 
the least, and qualified in other respects as the person to be 
elected: Provided that no default of election or vacancy shall 
prevent the other members of the Committee from acting 
until the vacancy shall be supplied: And we do declare that 
no person shall be appointed, or shall continue to be Master 
or Mistress in the said school, who is not a member of the 
Church of England. The Minister shall be Chairman of all 
meetings of the Committee of Management, if present, and 
when not present, any other member of the Committee selected 
by the members present shall preside; and in case of an 
equality of votes, the Chairman for the time being shall have 
a second or casting vote. In witness whereof, the said Cor¬ 
poration have hereunto affixed their Common Seal this 
Twentieth day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and 
Forty-eight.” 

Thomas Hearne, of White Waltham, the celebrated anti¬ 
quary, received his early education at Bray School, where he 
was taught the rudiments of the Latin tongue, sometime 
about the year 1693. 

“ Hither, therefore, he went on foot every morning, and 
came home every evening, though the place was situated three 
miles from his father’s house, which was the vicarage house, 

on the north side of White Waltham Church.At Bray 

School, Hearne appears to have made great progress; and in 
a short time afterwards, through the kindness of his muni¬ 
ficent patron [Francis Cherry, Esq., of Shottesbrook] he 
entered St. Edmund’s Hall, in Oxford, in the seventeenth 

year of his age.After his matriculation, he returned 

again to Mr. Cherry’s, and there*by his direction and appoint- 



GS 


LICH-GATE.—RECTORY. 


ment he went again to school at Bray, returning home at 
night to Mr. Cherry’s house. This he did till Easter term, 
1696, when he returned to pursue his studies at Oxford.”— 
(Hearne’s Life.) 

He died in 1735, and was buried at St. Peter’s in the East, 
Oxford. In the course of his life he published no less than 
sixty-eight works, most of which were translations of ancient 
MSS. never before published. 

Etc&=gate. 

According to an original date in quaint Arabic numerals on 
one of the principal timbers, this fine old porch, including the 
dwellings above, and probably the adjoining tenement, was 
erected in 1448. This property was purchased by the Rev. 
Walter Levett, in 1839, and presented by him to the parish 
in 1853, for the residence of two poor persons; the rent of 
the adjoining tenement to be used for repairs. The vicar, 
Jno. Hibbert, Esq., and J. J. Coney, Esq., are the present 
trustees. The deed is preserved in the vestry. 

Wf)t ncctovy. 

From the warrant issued to the churchwardens in 1293, it 
appears that the living was in the Crown at that period. 
“The rectory was appropriated to the Abbey of St. Mary, 
Cirencester, between 1293 and 1301, and that religious house 
presented to the vicarage until the Reformation.”— (Gorh) 

The valuation of the living made by order of Pope 
Nicholas IV., in 1292, was :— 

“ Ecclesia de Bray, xlii. marc. 

Vicaria in eadem xii. marc.” 

A very interesting account of the value of the Rectory is 
to be found in the Inquisitiones Nonarum, a curious record of 
the returns of jurors to determine the ninth part of the corn, 
wool, and lambs in every parish in England, granted to 
Edward III., in 1340, as an aid for the conquest of France. 

(Translation.) “Deanery of Reading .”—“John de Shoben- 
hangre, John atte More, Robert de Shyplake, Hug. de Nor¬ 
man ville, John de Crucghffelde, William de la Rokele, John 
de Mereworth, Roger de Crassewell, Will, le Palmere, and 
Thom. Eyst, being sworn at the Court of the Prior of Wal¬ 
lingford and his assistants, the collectors and disposers of the 


RECTORY. 


69 


ninths of the corn, fleeces, and lambs, held at Reading on 
Monday next before the Feast of St. Valentine, 15tli Ed¬ 
ward III. [1341-2], relative to the value of the ninth of 
corn, &c., granted to our Lord the King by his whole council, 
declare upon their oath, that the ninths, &c., within the 
parish of Bray might be valued at 35 marks per ann., and 
that which the Abbat of Cirencester, rector of the church 
aforesaid, holds, and which was valued at 55 marks—viz., one 
messuage and four virgates [100 acres] of land within the 
taxing aforesaid, are now worth 40 shill: per ann : And the 
same abbat holds four pieces of meadow with pastures, fisheries, 
rents, and other customs, belonging to the said church, which 
they value at 4 marks per ann. And the same abbat, and the 
vicar of the same church, have within the taxing of the said 
church, the tithe of all the meadows, which is worth 40 shill, 
per ann. They also declare that to the vicarage of the said 
church, which was included in the said valuation of 55 marks, 
pertain the mortuaries, the tithes of the young of animals, 
calves, pigs, flax, hemp, milk, and other small tithes, which 
they value at 10 marks per annum. Furthermore, the said 
ninths, &c., they do not estimate to the value of the taxing of 
the aforesaid 55 marks. In testimony of which, to the 
present indenture the jury aforesaid have placed their seals.” 
“ Item, dicunt qd non sunt nulli catellar’ nec vitular’ in villa 
p’dca.”—( Inquis. Nonarum .) 

1 Hen. V. (1413). "Abbas de Cirencestria. Injuste re¬ 
traxit elemosinam Regis apud Braye, videlit quatuor modios 
mixtilionis [a mixed bread of wheat and rye] que distribuer’ 
tenentibus sicut alii abbates anteriores ibm pro auimabus 
regum Angh,” &c.—( Cal. Rot. Chart.) 

The valuation, temp. Hen. VIII., was as follows:— 

" Bray vicar’ p ann’ clare valet . . £xxv. iiij s. iiij d. 

Decima inde.. • h?. \d. 

(Valor Ecclesiasticus , ii., 155 h. R . C.) 


“<3L gurtag of t&e Mfttora of iSrag 

“ Being lately part of the poss. of the late Bpp. of Oxen taken 
. ... in the month of May, 1650, by virtue of a Commission 
. . . . grounded upon an Ordinance of Pari, for appointing 
the sale of Bpp’s. lands for the use of the Commonwealth, &c. 

“ A fair Rectory or Parsonage House, being a new brick 
house with out-housing, yards, and gardens enclosed with a 



70 


RECTORY. 


brick wall, containing about 2 acres of land, wbicb we esti¬ 
mate to be worth £12 per annum. Severall pieces of errable 
ground lying together in ... . Holy port-field, near the said 
parsonage house, containing in all, about 50 acres .... worth 
£20 per ann. 

“ Another parcell of errable lande lying in the f Nestie/ 
containing .... 4 acres .... worth 32 shill, per annum. The 
first crop of 10 acres of meadow, lying neare the said par¬ 
sonage house, in a meadow called Wickmeade, which said first 
crop being to be taken between Our Lady Day and the 1st of 
August, .... worth £10 per ann. 

“ There are four small copyholds belonging to the said 
Rectory, demiseable for three lives .... but we find not the 
same called by the name of a manor, viz.: one in the possession 
of Roger Noke, being a house and three acres of errable in 
the field, valued per ann: 50 shill. Another house, and 
three acres of errable thereto belonging, in the possession of 
Mr. Huckle; valued at 50 shill, per ann. A little house, 
&c., in the possession of Rich d Kendall, value per an: 20 shill., 
and another house, &c., in the possession of Thomas Liany [?], 
value 20 shill. In the whole, £7 per ann. 

“ The tithes of corn and hay .... arising and growing in 
several townships and .... we estimate to be worth £300 
per ann. 

“ All which premises are, as we are informed, for we could 
not see the original lease, demised by the late Bpp. of Oxford 
to Sir Henry Marten, Knt., and by meane assignement come 
to the sayd Lady Rogers to hold for the lives of George 
Marten, Henry Marten, and Margaret Marten, and the 
longest liver of them, paying yearly to the said Bpp. the same 
£43 per ann.; but the same is worth .... over and besides 
the said rent, £307 12 s 0 d per ann. Margaret Marten is 
dead : the rest of the lives are in being. 

“Mr. Hezekiah Woodward is the vicar and present incum¬ 
bent of the sayd church, and hath a vicarage house and the 
small tythes, which, as we are informed by creditable persons 
of the parish, are worth about three score pounds per ann. 

“ Geo : Bettinghurst, 

Noah Bankes, 

Ralfe Dames, [?] 




TITHES.—CANON HILL. 


71 


gttfoftfonal Sburfay, trateU JFlay, 1651. 


“ One close of meadow or pasture ground called by tlie 
name of Garsons [/Garstons' in 1597], adjoining to Bray 
Church Yard on the west, containing by estimation four acres 
or thereabouts .... worth £8 10 s per ann. 

“ There belongs to the said Rectory a fishing in the River of 
Thames beginning at Garson's Meade and ending at Amersdon, 
and therewith 4 plotts of withies, w ch fishing, and withies or 
oziers, we estimate to be worth £6 per ann. 

“ Also there belongs to the said Rectory a comon for ffoure 
cowes in Queen Lease, which we estimate to be worth 20 shill, 
per. ann. 

“ The Profitts of a Coppyhold court Heriots and other 
Royalties vaP. coinb^ ann. 6 s 8 d . 

“ This is a true copy, 


“ J. B. More, 
and G. Eeenwick, 



(C 


Noaii Banks, 
Ralph Banes, [?] 


( -Earl . MSS., No. 7017. Brit. Mu*.) 


The commutation of the small tithes took place at the 
« Enclosure,” in 1817, when a certain portion of land was 
assigned to the use of the vicar at Braywoodside, and Bray. 

The great tithe issuing from the Lowbrooks division, 
formerly held on lease by the Partridge family under the 
Bishop of Oxford, now belongs to the executors of the Rev. 
S. P. Rippingall, late of Langham, near Holt, Norfolk. 

The tithe of the Oakley Division extending from the Shaf- 
felmoor to Bullock's Hatch, was purchased a few years since by 
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. 

©anon 

The Rectorial Manor, formerly belonging to the Monastery 
of Cirencester, was granted in 1547 by Edward VI. to John 
Kino-,Bishopof Oxford,and his successors in that see.— (Lyson.) 
In 1608, Sir John Norris was reported to hold “as tenant to 
the Bishop of Oxford, the parsonage of the parish of Bray, 


72 


VICARAGE. 


paying yearly to tlie King’s majesty 5 s , which is in the allow¬ 
ance of y e Reeve.”— (Survey.) 

This estate having been enfranchised by the representatives 
of the late Mrs. Law, was purchased in 1857 by J. H. Palmer, 
Esq., of Fulham. It is now the property and residence of his 
son, Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. 

The house, which is most pleasantly situated on a gently 
rising eminence, is large and spacious, and contains a small 
but handsome chapel lighted by five windows of stained glass. 
The two side lights are by Lavers and Barraud, and contain 
scenes from the Gospel history. Among the rest are “ Mary 
at the Feet of Jesus;” “The Burial of Our Lord;” and 
“The Visit of the Holy Women to the Sepulchre.” The 
three single lights contain quaint medallions representing the 
“ Passion of Christ.” Beneath the central window is a brass 
plate bearing the following inscription : —“ This Chapel is 
dedicated to the Glory of God in memory of John Horsley 
Palmer, who bought -this house and land in the month of Oc¬ 
tober, 1857, and gave it to his son Edward Howley Palmer. 
He died at Fulham, in the County of Middlesex, on the 7th 
of February, 1858, aged 78 years.” 


The old vicarage house, standing in 1760, is reported to have 
been situated in a meadow on the south side of the church, 
how in the occupation of Mr. W. Woodhouse, of Bray. Its 
windows were adorned with stained glass. Two escutcheons 
are preserved in Sir Thos. Reeve’s collections 

1 The arms of Baron Sandys, Lord Chamberlain to 

Henry VIII.:—Arg. a cross raguly sa., bearing for 
an escutcheon of pretence, the arms of Bray*—viz.. 
Quarterly, 1st, Arg. a chevron betw. 3 eagles’ legs 
erased sa. 2nd, Vaire arg. and azure, 3 bends gu. 

2 The arms of the Bray Family as above, surmounted by 

a helmet bearing a cap of maintenance, gu. lined 
arg. on which is arg. a hog courant; the whole 
issuing from a Baron’s coronet, or.—T. R., 1760. 


William Lord Sandes increased his estate by marriage with Margery Bray, 
daughter and heiress of John Bray, and cousin of Sir Reginald Bray.”—(Camden.) 
The Bray family held large estates in the parish about this time. See Hendons, 
b oxleys, &c. 


CIIAUNTRY HOUSE.-BRAY MILL. 


73 


©fjauntry $>ouge, 

The property of Mrs. Williams,, was formerly the Parish 
Workhouse. It occupies the site of an ancient hostelry, termed 
“The Chauntrye,” mentioned in the B. C. R. in 1504. 
“ Hugo Tanner presented that Thomas Hormo kept a ‘ Tenys- 
play ’ at his house called Le Chauntrye. Wherefore he is 
ordered to abolish the same, under penalty of 3 s 4 d . The 
said Thomas was afterwards ordered to remove from the said 
house by the Feast of St. Michael, under penalty of £4. Item, 
It was presented that the said Thomas had a f Bowlyngalye’ 
within his premises, wherefore it is ordered him that he dis¬ 
pense with the same during his stay, under penalty of 40 d .” 

In 1597, Chauntry House was the property of Henry Norris, 
Esq.— {B. C. R.) 

23iaj> Jifttll. 

Bray Mill and Manor were given in 1206 to Jordan de 
London by King John.— {Rot. Chart .) It was confirmed to 
him in 1218, by Henry III. at the yearly rent of 12 shill.— 
{Rot. Lit. Claus.) 

The following entry occurs on the B. C. R. of 1288 :— 

“ Irrotui Inquis’ de Braymelle. 

“Inquis’ capta apud Braye in Com* Berk* die Ven 9 is xiiii 
die Juh A 0 . E. post Conqm xvi; Cor* Hugo de Glanvyll et 
E. de Cotes audit’ corap et supvisor’ t 9 raru Regine p sacrm 
Joh. de Shobenhangr., Johis ate More, Rog 9 de Crassewelle, 
Johis le Smyth, Willi Baret, Rob 9 ti Witchin, Will le Palmere, 
Willi le Smyth, Thome ate Hatche, Thom Est, Rici Milis, 
& Rog le Hwite, Qui die’ qd Jobs quond’ Rex Angl concessit 
Jordano de Londres, vocato atte Loke, Molend sum de Braye, 
cu aqua sepali et cursu ejusdem, ac etiam insulas sp 9 tantes ad 
idih molend’ et heredib 3 iplus Jordani, Redd’ inde p annu 
p 9 fato Regi et hedib 3 suis xij s sterling ad man 9 iu suu de 
Braye et qd idm Jordan et assign suu a tempe concession 
hui’ soluit p 9 fato Reg’ & Heredib 3 suis redd’ p 9 dcm t 9 is Pasch’ 
& Michis p equales porcoes ad man 9 iu p 9 dcm. Ita qd dni 
eiusdem man 9 ii inde seisiti fu 9 unt a tempe p 9 dce concessionis 
continue usq 3 Fin Sci Mich A° R. R. Edw: nunc xij. A 
quo festo citra p 9 dcus reddit’ aretro existit p eo qd balli dne 
R e . Phe nuc dne p 9 dci man 9 ii distr’ aliquas in dco molendia p 
redd’ predco invenire no potuerunt. Ac etiam p eo qd dhs 


JESUS* HOSPITAL. 


74 

Jobs de Sea Philberto ultim’ tenens dci_molend’ cu aqua ac 
insula erradicav 11 deportavit dem molendiu ab illo loco et solo 
ubi p’us fuit tempe concessionem predee et . . . . illud sup 
solu Jobis de Shobenhangre ex una parte, et solu dee insule 
ex alia parte molendo cu cursu aque p 9 dce. In cui’ rei testm 
p 9 fati jur’ huic inquis’ sigiir sua apposuer’. Dat die, loco, & 
anno supradcis.”— (B. C. R.) 

Frequent mention is made in the B. C. R. of the Millers of 
Bray. Like the miller described by Chaucer, 

“ coutrc tfjes stden come, antt tollcn tf&rfes.” 

Anno 1375—“Presented that Bobert Muleward, ‘Molen- 
darius de Bray Melle’ took excessive toll.” 

In 1451 Bobert West of East Oakley watermill was pre¬ 
sented for the same offence. 

Anno 1489, “ William Kember had a watermill at Bray, 
and took excessive toll,” &c., &c. 

Bray Mill is now the property and residence of Mr. Cater. 

testis’ hospital. 

(chiefly from Herbert’s history of fishmongers’ 

COMPANY.) 

“ Jesus Hospital was founded in 1609, pursuant to the will 
of William Goddard, who appears from entries in the books of 
the Fishmongers’ Company, to have died about the end of the 
same year. The will, of which the precise date is unknown, 
after declaring the testator’s intention to erect an hospital in 
the parish of Bray, for poor people to inhabit (and if he 
should die before the same should be effected, then that the 
Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of Fishmongers of 
London; Mr. John Leman, alderman of the City of London, 
and others therein named, being Citizens and Fishmongers of 
London, or some one of them,* should see the same accom¬ 
plished), to this end, gave and devised to them and their 
successors, and to the said John Leman and others, their heirs 
and assigns, after the decease of Joyce, his wife, All those 
his messuages, &c., situate in the parish of St. Catharine Cree 
Church, alias Christ’s Church, within Aldgate, in the City of 
London, &c., and all that his manor of Crutchfield, other¬ 
wise called Lord’s Lands, situate at, and in Bray aforesaid, 
and also all those parcels of pasture called Glenhurst, alias 
Clevards, and all those closes of arable or pasture called 
Gatebridge, and also one other close of pasture called Mile- 


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75 


Croft, alias Middle Croft, all which said closes of pasture, 
&c., were situated in the aforesaid parish of Bray; and all 
those closes of pasture or arable land called Twests ; and 
the meadow called Quelme Mead, alias Long Mead; and 
the lands, &c., called by the several names of Wood Croft, 
Middle Croft, Bed Croft, and Middlefield Coppice, with 
all the buildings, &e., in Wood Croft, and one other close 
divided into two parts, lying in Holyport, in the said parish 
of Bray; and all those 38£ acres lying in Holyport Field, 
Bramble Yere, Bedmead, and the Nesty, alias Esty, and in 
Wickmead; and all those 25J acres lying in Holyport 
Field aforesaid, with all other his lands, &c., whatsoever, 
lying in Bray aforesaid.” 

[The following lands, &c. were purchased by William 
Goddard, of Robert Bishopp, of Egham:—Forty-three acres 
of land lying in Holyport Field, and the “ Neestye ats Easty,” 
purchased Sep. 20 th , 1595. Also “ Gatbridg” als “ Gad- 
bridge,” “ Rye Close,” “ Hendon's Meades,” “ Ould Read- 
inge,” “ Hendon's Grove,” “ Ruslimeade,” “ Middlemeade,” 
“ Longmeade,” purchased of the same Rob 1 Bishopp for the 
“ somme of fower hundreth and ten powndes of lawful English 
money,” 9 th May, 1598.— C. A.] 

“ And the said testator directed that the outer walls of the 
said hospital should be built of brick, and that there should 
be rooms with chimneys fit and convenient for 40 poor people 
to dwell in, and that there should be in the said hospital a 
chapel to serve Almighty God in for ever, with public and 
divine prayers, and other exercises of religion: and also a 
kitchen and a bakehouse common to all the poor people of the 
hospital; and that the said hospital should be called for ever 
by the name of f Jesus' Hospital' in Bray, of the founda¬ 
tion of William Goddard; and that the said Wardens and 
Commonalty of the Mystery of Fishmongers should be 
o-overnors of the said hospital for ever. And that the said 
wardens and assistants should nominate and choose 40 poor 
people, men and women, whereof 6 persons should be chosen 
of the most aged, poorest, and decayed persons of the said 
company of Fishmongers, being freemen or freewomen of the 
said company, of the age of 50 years at the least; and 34 of 
the most aged, poorest, and impotent parishioners, inhabiting 
in the said parish of Bray by the space of 20 years next before 
such election, every of them of the age of 50 years at the 
least to be chosen by the wardens and assistants for the time 
beino-, and to dwell in the said hospital during the will and 


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JESUS* HOSPITAL. 


pleasure of the said wardens and assistants, and no longer: and 
in case of vacancy by death or expulsion, or non-residence, 
others to be elected and chosen by the said wardens, &c. 
within 40 days after notice. And he willed that the husband 
and wife should not be allowed and admitted to be a brother 
or sister of the said hospital, but either the husband or the 
wife, but not both. And the said testator thereby committed 
the erecting, visitation, and government of the said hospital 
to the Wardens and commonalty of the said company and 
their successors, with power to make laws, &c., for the 
government of the said hospital, and of the brethren and 
sisters therein; and after the said hospital should be erected, 
he willed that the brethren and sisters should have the use, 
occupation, and profits of all the said lands in Bray (except 
all woods, underwoods, and trees whatsoever), to be equally 
and indifferently divided amongst them, and to be employed 
in keeping of kine to give them milk, or to plant peas or any 
other seed or roots for their sustenance and relief; or to make 
orchards, or to be otherwise employed to their best advantage. 
And if any difference or question should grow amongst them, 
the wardens and assistants of the said company should order 
and judge the same.” 

The erection of the hospital commenced in 1623, and it was 
completed in 1628. 

The property belonging to the hospital has undergone great 
alterations in consequence of the enclosure. The old enclosed 
lands, however, as described in a terrier and plan dated 1672, 
appear to agree in the main with the present parcels. In 
the terrier the enclosures are stated to contain altogether 
178a. 2r. 36p., and the common field lands, 45a. 3r. 33p. By 
a plan taken in 1818, subsequent to the enclosure, the total 
quantity is stated to be 230a. 3r. 3p. The quantities set 
forth in the present leases agree within an acre of this state¬ 
ment. 

LANDS BELONGING TO THE HOSPITAL. 

In London :— 

1 A messuage, No. 10, in Aldgate High-street. 

2 A messuage, No. 3, Jewry-street. 

In Berks :— 

3 Shortlane Farm, Gadbridge, and Glenhurst, containing 

83a. 3r. 6p. 

4 Millcroft Field, containing 18a. lr. 39p. 

5 Lands formerly leased to John Lewis, containing 

38a. lr. 20p. b 


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77 


6 Land on Waltham or Bray wood Common, being an 

allotment under the Bray Enclosure Act, containing 
7a. lr. 4p. 

7 Lord's Land Farm, 81a. 3r. 15p. 

AFTER GIFTS. 

Copping’s Gift .—Jeremiah Copping, by will dated Jan. 8th, 
1686, bequeathed to the company the sum of 1800Z. for the 
support of nine or ten poor old almsmen of the said company. 
To which he bequeathed a life rent charge, which ultimately 
produced 530/. 12s. 6d. The company received under this 
gift the sum of 2163/. 9s. 9d. At a court held 14th May, 
1688, the company ordered that until a convenient purchase 
should be made of lands, they should pay 7 2 1. yearly to the 
six alms folks at Bray, and 6/. to those in the almshouse at 
Harrietsliam, which payments are still continued, no lands 
having been purchased with this fund. 

Cook’s Gift —being 5900/.Three perCent. Consolidated Bank 
Annuities, bequeathed to the company by the will of Thomas 
Cook, upon trust, to apply the dividends thereof weekly for 
ever for the benefit and relief of the 34 parishionary alms- 
people for the time being residing in Jesus' Hospital, by in¬ 
creasing the pensions and allowance of the said almspeople in 
equal shares and proportions. This stock was transferred into 
the name of the company in 1813. 

Baskerville’s and Owen’s Gifts —being 4/. per annum, part 
of the interest of 200/. given to the company by Randolph 
Baskerville in 1663; and 1/., the gift of John Owen in 1676, 
to the six almspeople of the company. 

Hibbert? s Gift .—In 1857, John Hibbert, Esq., of Braywick 
Lodge, presented to the funds of this hospital the sum of 
1000/. on condition that the married parishionary almspeople 
should receive an extra weekly allowance of 2s., which increase 
they have duly received since that time. 

A second donation of 1000/. was given by J. Hibbert, Esq., 
in 1860, for the benefit of the 34 parishionary almsmen. 

APPLICATION, 

The weekly allowances to the six almspeople free of the 
company were, in 1790, raised from 5s. to 7s. per week; and 
in 1792, those who were married, to 12s. The thirty-four 
parishionary almspeople have remained at the old allowance 
of 2s. per week, but have, in addition, the dividend arising 
from Cook's gift, which amounts to an additional 2s. per 


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78 

week to each. The allowance of the married parishionary 
almspeople was raised in 1857, through the munificence 
of J. Hibbert, Esq., to 6s. per week. An additional 6d. 
weekly to the 34 parishionary occupants was afforded by a 
second donation made by the same gentleman in 1860. 
Baskerville’s gift of 4/., together with a yearly donation of 
5 guineas from the company, are put into the poor’s-box, and 
equally divided amongst the almspeople at Christmas. The 
six almspeople of the company also receive 3$. 4 d. each at 
Easter from the gift of John Owen, besides their money pen¬ 
sions. Clothing is given to the almspeople every second year, 
consisting of a good coat to each of the men, and a camlet 
gown to the women. They have also 37£ chald. of coal and 
10 loads of faggots divided equally amongst them. 

©Mm 

In the vicinity of Bray is Oldfield, which, previous to 
the enclosure, was one of the common pastures. From the 
earliest times the right of pasturage in this meadow was a 
much disputed point. In 1340 an inquest was held, by the 
King’s order, to ascertain who had u common right” in 
“ Eldefeld” throughout the year. To this inquiry were sum¬ 
moned, amongst others, Thomas de Foxle, John de Shoben- 
hangre, Robert de Shyplake, and Benedict de Dittone. 

In the days of Good Queen Bess, archery meetings were 
held in this meadow, when the stalwart volunteers of Bray 
and the neighbourhood met to exhibit their skill in the use of 
the bow. One of these matches is commemorated by a brass 
plate in Clewer Church, thus inscribed :— 

‘ 1 He that lieth vnder this stone 
Shott with a hvndred men himselfe alone. 

This is trew that I do saye, 

The match was shott in oulde pelde at Bray. 

I will tell yov before yov go hence, 

That his name was Martine Expence.” 

In more modern times. Old Field has witnessed many a 
sharply-contested game between the cricketers of the Mary- 
le-bone Club and Bray. On one of these occasions, the 
Londoners retired in high dudgeon on hearing the bells sound 
their defeat, and refused to partake of an excellent collation 
provided for them at Bray. In the Sporting Magazine for 
1794 is the following notice of Old Field:— 

“ Last month a grand match of cricket was played at Old 


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79 


Field, near Maidenhead, between two select elevens of Eng¬ 
land for 1000 guineas. This match was made between R. 
Leigh and E. Morant, Esqrs. Result in favour of Old Field 
Club, 89 runs.” 

frames. 

The whole of the river, from the site of the old Maiden¬ 
head Bridge down to Ruddle Pool on the Clewer border, is 
within the parish of Bray. Several small islands are studded 
along its course, of which by far the most celebrated is 

Monkey Island, “ which derives its name from a small 
rustic building, called Monkey Hall, erected on this spot by 
the Duke of Marlborough, about the year 1744. The island 
was formerly rented by Townley Ward, Esq., who purchased 
the lease in 1787 for 240 guineas .”—(Beauties of Berics.) 

An island is mentioned in the B. C. R. of 1361, which, 
from its evident size, seems to be identical with Monkey 
Island. Anno 34 Ed. III. “ John Casse and John Tyel- 
hurst gave 2 s 6 d for the pasturage of a certain island called 
‘ Bournhames-eyte/ until the Feast of St. Michael.” 

BRIDGES. 

Maidenhead Bridge .—A bridge has existed here from a 
remote period, for a grant was made in 1298 for its repair. 

“ 26 Ed. I.—Pontagium pro ponte de Maidenheith.”— {Cal. 
Rot. Pat.) 

It was principally for the maintenance of this bridge that 
the Guild of St. Andrew and St. Mary Magdalene was es¬ 
tablished in Maidenhead by Hen. YI. in 1452. Its state at 
that time may be inferred from the following clause in the 
deed relative to the foundation of the guild :—“ (Qui ultra 
aquam Thamesise ibidem se ducit, et per quern pontem diversi 
ac plures ligei nostri transire volentes libera passagia sua tarn 
cum carectis et equis suis quam cum aliis bonis catallis et 
merchandisis suis certis temporibus anni ob impetus fluxus 
aquae ibidem et debilitatem pontis prsedicti absque vitarum 
suarum periculis bonorumque catallorum et merchandisarum 
suarum hujusmodi amissione habere vel facere non possunt 
nec audent ullo modo.)”— {Rot. Pat., 30 Hen. YI., p. 2, m. 1.) 

Camden, in his Mag. Brit., seems to infer that the bridge 
was first erected about 1460, “ for no longer ago than our 
great grandfathers 5 time there was a ferry in a place some¬ 
what higher at Babham End. But after they had built a 


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wooden bridge here upon piles, Maidenhead began to have 
inns, and to be so frequented as to outvie its neighbouring 
mother Bray, a much more ancient place.” In support of 
Camden's statement, it is highly probable that the bridge was 
rebuilt by the exertions of the guild about the period to which 
he alludes, and that persons, rather than risk their lives, &c., 
in passing the old bridge, had for some time previously used 
the ancient ford at Babham End. In former times the cor¬ 
poration was allowed three trees annually from Windsor 
Forest to keep the bridge in repair. 

“ Maidenhead was the scene of a skirmish in the time of 
Bichard II d , when Henry IY. had great difficulty in crossing 
•the bridge, which was held by the Duke of Surrey.”—(Mur¬ 
ray's Handbook to Berks.) 

In 1688, it was fortified to impede the approach of the 
Prince of Orange towards the metropolis, and its defence en¬ 
trusted to the Irish, but some of the townsmen of Maiden¬ 
head beating a Dutch march in the night, they took the 
alarm, and abandoned their post, leaving their cannon behind 
them.—( Lyson .) 

According to an original sketch, the old bridge was sup¬ 
ported by massive piles. The sides or guards were strength¬ 
ened by exterior abutments resting upon the projecting ends 
of the beams on which the bed of the road was laid. The 
whole of the bridge stood a few yards to the north-west of 
the present structure. The Bucks pier extended to the front 
of the Orkney Hotel. 

The present bridge was erected in 1772, from designs by 
Sir Bobert Taylor. “ It consists of seven large semicircular 
arches of stone, and three smaller ones of brick at each end. 
The cost of its erection was 19,000^, independent of some 
contiguous lands purchased to render the work complete.”— 

(Beauties of Berks) 

The magnificent bridge of the Great Western Bailway, a 
little lower down the stream, was designed by the late Sir 
Isambard Brunei, the eminent engineer, and constructed by 
Mr. Chadwick. 

Dimensions :— 


Span of each arch.128 0 

Bise of ditto.24 3 


Span of towing-path arch on each side . . 28 0 

Thickness of the two great arches at the spring 7 1 \ 

Thickness at the crown.5 3 




THAMES. 81 

The whole is constructed of brick laid in cement, except 
the cornice and coping, which are of stone. 

LOCK. 

There was formerly a lock between Bray and Ammerden, 
which was taken up by virtue of a Commission of Sewers in 
1622. It was then in the possession of Thomas Mansfeild.” 
— {Mag. Brit. i. 118.) 

FISHERIES. 

The limits of the four fisheries are Maidenhead Bridge, 
Upper Garston Eyott, Iiamerdon Ash, Down Place, and 
Buddie Pool, on the Clewer Border. 

The fishery, with the islands and eyotts, were granted by 
Charles I., in 1632, to William Collins and Edward Fenn, 
in perpetual fee, at the yearly rent of 33$. 4 d. 

ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN THE THAMES. 

By far the most remarkable of these is an ancient British 
instrument of bronze, greatly resembling a modern reaping 
hook, but only four inches in length. The blade is curved, 
and double edged. At one end of it is a perforated socket, by 
which it was attached to a handle. From its appearance, it 
has evidently served for the double purpose of boat-hook and 
harpoon, an instrument well adapted to the flimsy coracle of 
that early period. It is now in the possession of Mr. W. 
Woodhouse, Bray. A fine double-edged sword, of the Nor¬ 
man period, was found by Mr. Charles Mickley, a few years 
ago, between Bray and Monkey Island. Dimensions .—Length 
of blade, 2ft. 6in.; breadth, 2in.; length of guard, 4§in.; 
from the guard to the flat ball at the end of the handle, 3Jin.; 
breadth of ball, 2^in. A broad cavetto runs down each side 
of the blade, from the hilt to the point. 

AFFLUENTS. 

1. The “ Cut” which receives the Shaffel Moor, and dis¬ 
charges near Monkey Island. 

2. The Bourne y which rises in Windsor Forest, and joins the 
Thames near Buddie Pool. 

During the formation of the “ Cut,” in 1819, a stratum of 
calcareous stone, which had to be blasted with gunpowder, 
was found near Touchin End; and between Paley-street and 
Brick Bridge a layer of oyster-shells was discovered, of a large 
and fine description, several specimens of which are in the 


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possession of Mr. Woodwell. This remarkable stratum un¬ 
doubtedly corresponds with that in the neighbourhood of 
Reading, so well known to geologists. 

In the vicinity of Ockwells, the "Cut” joins the Shaffel 
Moor or Shortford Moor, which originally discharged near 
Garston’s Mead, to the west of Bray Church, under the name 
of " Hogge Bridge Streame” (1620). Shortford-more Streme, 
at Bray wick, is named (B. C. R.) rn 1451. Near Bray wick 
the Cut is joined by a large brook flowing from the pond at 
Ives Place, and through the old marsh called Tadpool. (" Dede¬ 
pole,” 1296, one of the fisheries of the manor.) In 1484, 
this brook was termed " Dim-mede-dyche,” from a meadow of 
that name in the vicinity of the Great Western Railway.—(See 
Bunmede .) 

Leaving Braywick, the Cut passes through Braywickmead 
(Wykemeyde, 1489) ; and, crossing the road near the alms¬ 
houses, enters Bedmead (Bedemed, 1333, and Bedmed, 1363), 
and joins the Thames near Monkey Island. 

aSragfotcfe, 

Termed "Wick,” (Wyke, 1340) until about 1450, when the 
prefix "Bray” began to be applied.— (B. C. R.) "Wyke” 
was one of the ancient tithings of the parish, and the reports 
of the tithingman, illustrating many of the local and social 
features of the hamlet in bygone times, frequently occur in 
the Rolls: of the latter, the following is an example :—Anno 
1517- "Robert Malden, tithingman, presented that Alice, 
the wife of William Smythgate of Braywick is a babbler 
[' garulatrix ’], and has an unruly tongue de mala guberna- 
cione']; wherefore the said Alice is commanded to refrain herself 
by the Feast of St. Edmund, King and Conf r , next future, 
under penalty of 40 s and bodily punishment.”—( B . C. R.) 

The principal mansions at Braywick are Braywick Lodge, 
Braywick Grove, and Canon Hill. 

Braywick Lodge, the seat of John Hibbert, Esq., is a 
handsome mansion, standing in a small but picturesque park 
adjoining the Maidenhead and Windsor Road. The house, 
which has of late been greatly improved by its worthy owner, 
was formerly the residence of Thomas Slack, Esq., and after¬ 
wards of Sir John West, G.C.B., " The Admiral of the Fleet.” 

Braywick Grove, the seat of John Jeane Coney, Esq. 
This mansion was erected by Sir William Paule in the seven¬ 
teenth century, as appears from an entry in the Church wardens’ 
Book, dated 1679, in which it is stated that Sh Will. Paule, 


BRAYWICK SCHOOL. 


83 


Kt., “ did erect and build one new seat in the north Eyle [of 
Bray Church] to remaine a seat vnto him and his new erected 
house at Braywick for ever.” 

Catharine, sole daughter and heiress of Sir William Paule, 
brought this estate in marriage to Sir William Stapleton, of 
the City of Westminster. 

“ 1726, Dec: 11th.—A negroe baptiz d by y e name of Fran¬ 
cis. He was Servant to Sr. Will 111 Stapleton, Bart.”—( Bray 
Church Register .) 

Braywick House was sold in or about the year 1808, by the 
Hon. Thomas Windsor, to Capt. Anbury. It was afterwards 
the residence of Admiral Sir Thomas Pole, Bart. This estate 
was bequeathed to Mr. Coney by the family of Bouehier. 

Canon Hill. — (See Rectory .) 

Court-house and School. —The school building at Braywick 
was formerly the Court-house of the manor. In 1454, “ the 
tithingman of Braywick presented that the fences round the 
court-house were broken and out of repair.” Again, April 6, 
1599, it was reported that the house called the court-house, and 
certain bridges there called Braywick-bridges, were decayed, 
and ought to be repaired by the Queen, &c.— (JB. C. R.) 

The following is from the Report of Charity Schools, pub¬ 
lished in 1713. “ Bray.—Four Charity Schools.In 

the other three schools are 45 children, some few little boys, 
but most girls; taught to read, write, sew, and knit. Sub¬ 
scriptions upwards of £60 per annum, and if any money re¬ 
mains after all the other charges are defrayed, that is layd out 
towards putting boys out to apprentice.” 

Before the appointment of the Rev. W. Levett to the Vi¬ 
carage, the school was chiefly supported by the proceeds of a 
bazaar held annually at Michaelmas in the Town Hall, Maiden¬ 
head. In course of time, however, and by great economy the 
patrons were enabled to place the sum of 1533^. 6s. 8 d. in the 
funds for the endowment of the school, and by the interest of 
this sum, and parochial subscriptions, the school is supported 
at the present time. 

BRAYWICK BRIDGES. 

“ Itm. I biqueth to ye makyng and repairing of ye briggs 
bytwene the said church of Bray and a village called the 
Wyke v marc.”— (Will of John Norreys , of (( Ohholls ,” 1465.) 

The sum of 14^. issuing out of lands near Boyn Hill, was, 
in the fifteenth century, applied to the reparation of the Bray¬ 
wick bridges.— (R. C . Ri) —See Boyn Hill. 

g 2 



84 BRIDGE ACRE.—ELIOTS.—RUSHENDON. 

A meadow called “ Bridge Acre,” near Braywick, is men¬ 
tioned in the B. C. R. of 1333. " Isabell de Shorteforde in 

mia (2 d ) £ tn a s cii xviii aver’ in le Bruggeaker.” Again, 
Anno 1451, “ John Heyward undertook to hold of our Lord 
the King an acre of meadow called f Bryge acre/ near ' Bray- 
wyke/ at the yearly rent of 6 d .” 

In 1541, “ Richard Slye of the Pyshe of Bray, bargayned 
and solde vnto Thomas Elyott and his heires for euer for the 
some of £xvi. all that his xx acres and oone yerde of arrable 
londe lyinge in Bray Wyke felde.”— (B. C. R.) Richard 
Lovelace died in 1602, seised of Eliots, and Clarkes, &c., 
lying in Braywick, and which had been held by John and 
Arthur Lovelace of Hurley. Henry Lovelace, son of the said 
Richard, did homage the same year for his father’s lands.— 
( C '. R.) This meadow, the property of John Hibbert, Esq., 
is still termed “ Eliot’s Piece.” 

The names Mill-hey, and Windmill-hill, in Braywick-field, 
are mentioned in the B. C. R. of 1649. 

Rushendon. —The name of a field on the hill side near the 
old chalk-pit between Braywick and Maidenhead. Anno 1370: 
“ Nicholas Bernard, by John Hereward his attorney, com¬ 
plained that John Clerk molested him, the said Nicholas, that 
he was not able to convey the timber which he had purchased 
of Master Richard the Chaplain [Richard Shireve], out of the 
wood called Russiiynden, and that of the aforesaid wood he 
had made fire billets, and taken them to his own use.”— 
( B . C. R.) Hence Rushendon seems to have belonged to the 
chauntry at Bray. 

Residents in Wyke Tithing in 1288.— (B. C. R.) 

Richard Shobenhangre. 

John Bernard (comp. Barnard). 

William Whyte. 

John Tetteberi (Bailiff for the Abbat of Cirencester). 

Thomas Chapman, and Hugh. 

Nicholas Olmer, Forester. 

William Shorteforde. 

[Will, de Shorteford died in 1270, seised of 4 acres of 
land in Bray.— [Inq. p. mort.) 

Will, de S., died 1275, seised of the manors of Bray 
and Cookham.—( Tnq,p . m.) ^ 

Anno 3, Ed. I. (1275). “ Wills de Shortford et Felic’ 
uxor ejus, nutrix Alfons’ fil’ Regis,” received a 
grant of 4 acres of land in Bray and Shortford— 


BRAYWICK.—KEMBERS. 85 

“concess* sibi et hered* predict* Eel’.”— [Rot. 
Chart.) 

(Roger de Sh., “Esson,” 1305.— [B. C. R) 

Robert de S., died 1331, seised of 1 mess, and 30 ac. of 
land in Bray.— ( Inq. p . m.) 

Isabel de S.—(See Bridgeacre , 1333.) 

Eelicia de S., 1334. 

William, son of John de S.—(See Tenures, 1340.) 

John de S., son and heir of Robert de S., died 1351, 
leaving issue by his wife Cristina,—Constance, 
sole d. and heiress.—( B . C.R.) 

“ Shorteforde-more-streme apud Braywyke,” 1454.] 
Kembers (between Bray wick and Ockwells). — Kember 
family from the B. C. R .:— 

1425 Alice K., suitors fine 4 d , and in 1432. 

,, John K., suitors fine 4 d . 

1426 John K. and John Budde were fined for not cleans¬ 

ing a pit, at Shortfordmore (Braywick stream). 
1429 John K. “de Altewode” fined 2 d for default of suit 
of C. 

1454 Robert K., miller at Eifield. 

1455 John K., miller of Bray, responsible for repairs of 

East Hatch gate. 

1476 William K. enfeoffed Robert Fowler with all his 
lands, &c., in Bray. 

1488 John K., woodward of the “ Neyts.” 

„ John K., son of Will m , was reported to be 12 yrs. old. 

1489 William K. held Bray watermill. 

1498 Robert K. enfeoffed Rob 1 Fowler, Rob. Amery, Tho. 
Mauncey, and Tho. Martyn with all his estates in 
Bray. 

(1512 “Thomas Thomas, l d Kember , &c., sunt venal* 
leporti.”) 

1523 Agnes K. 

In 1532 Sir Rob 4 Jones, of Down Place, died seised of Sherys, 
Kembers, &c., and the lands formerly held by 
Thomak Thomas. 

In 1535 William Brownsopp was chosen “collector” for the 
lands he held called Kembers. Philippa, one of 
the co-heiresses of W. Brownsopp, brought 
Kembers “in Altwood” in marriage to Henry 
Harris, of New Windsor, who sold this estate in 
1609 to Edward Wardour, of St. Martin’s-in-the 
Fields, for 730/. 

(See Kembers in Fifield.) 


86 


MANOR OF CRESWELLS. 


Staverton Lodge (Little Strowd, 1640).—This villa, the 
property of Mr. James Taylor, is erected on a plot of ground 
formerly held by the Staverton family. In 1485, Henry 
Staverton was one of the parties responsible for the cleansing 
of “ Dunmede Dyche** (the brook between Ives Place and 
Tadpool). 

Queen Leaze. —This tract of ground, surrounded by a 
broad and deep ditch, lies to the N.W. of Bray wick. From a 
remote period this meadow was held of the Crown at a nominal 
rent by the parishioners, and the proceeds devoted to the re¬ 
pairs of the church. Mention is made in Doomsday (a.d. 1085), 
of a hide of land belonging to the church. Also in the Liber 
Regis temp. Hen. VIII., " Prat/ pro repar.* eccles*.** As the 
manor of Bray was frequently held by the Queen for the 
younger branches of the Boyal Family, it would at such times 
be held on lease under her: hence the name Queen leaze. 

'Anno 1450.—“ Itm. de Agistment* in le Quenelesse 
xxviij 8 vi d .* ? —( j B. C. R.) —For a further account see Survey of 
the Manor , 1650. 

The last lease granted to the inhabitants expired January 
16th, 1821. On February 21st, in the same year. Queen Lease 
was sold by auction at the Sun Inn, Maidenhead. It was 
divided into 16 lots, comprising little more than 72 acres, and 
realized altogether the sum of 680 0£. 

“ Dunmede** (N.W. of Queen Leaze). Anno 1335.—"Pre¬ 
sented that William [Sherreve], Vicar, and Henry de Gosyn- 
done, had made a ditch and an enclosure [ f haiam’ = a hedge] at 
Donemed, and drive their sheep thither, to the injury of the 
common way there.**-— (R. G. R.) In 1338, Benedict de Ditton 
paid for the past, of 3 calves in “ Donnemed.** 

JWanor of ©regfoells, aKas JJJjtltlmtg. 

The original name of this manor, “ Kersewell,** " Carse- 
well,** "Caieswell,** " Crassewell,** and ultimately “ Creswell,** 
is undoubtedly derived (like the appellation " Philiberts’*) from 
its ancient possessors. 

Boger de Cressewell was one of the principal inhabitants of 
the parish in 1333; the name occurs in 1338 and 1340. He 
appears to have been the last of the family in Bray. Hugh 
de St. Philibert died seised of this manor in 1248. 

Circa 1272. Hugh de St. Philibert held 2 hides of land in 
Bray, by the service of providing the King with a bushel of 
wine.—(See Enndred Rolls.) 


DE SANCTO PHILIBERTO 































































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MANOR OF CRESWELLS. 


87 


“ Hugo de Sco Philiberto tenet de dno Rege in villa de 
Bray L solid* terre p s 9 jant* s 9 viendi de ocreis dm Reg*.**— 
(Testa de Nevill.) 

In 1330, tlie lands of John de St. Philibert within the 
manor of Bray and Forest of Windsor were confirmed to him 
at the yearly payment of 40s.—( C. Rot. Pat.) 

In 1335, Henry, the Chaplain of John de St. Philibert, 
was fined for neglecting the fences between his land and the 
royal demesne.— (P. C. R.) In 1338 he paid §d. pannage for 
6 hogs in the Frith. 

In 1353, John de St. Philibert sold the manor of Cresswells 
to the King. 

“ Issue Roll, Michaelmas, 27 Edw d III. 21 December. 

“ To John de St. Philibert in money by him recieved of 
John Maleweyn and his companions, merchants, in part pay¬ 
ment of 700 marks, which the King commanded to be paid 
him for the manor of Caieswell, with the appurtenances in 
the parish of Bray, co. Berks, and for other goods and chat¬ 
tels .purchased from him to the King*s use/*—(Devon*s 
Issues of the Excheq.) 

The same year the King endowed the College and Chapel of 
St. George at Windsor with the manor of Bray St. Philibert. 

“ Moreover, the founder granted to them and their suc¬ 
cessors [18 July, 26 Eel. III.; Pat. 26 Ed. III. p. 1] the 
manor of Craswell, with its appurtenances, in the parish of 
Bray, in the county of Berks, and a certain Weare, called 
Braybrok, placed in the river of Thames, with all the lands and 
tenements in the said parish conveyed unto him by Sir John 
Philibert, together with the knights* fees, and advowsons of 
churches, chapels, chaunteries, and other things whatsoever to 
the said manors, lands, and tenements belonging; and the 
23 rd of February following, a writ [clause 27 Ed. III. m. 25] 
issued to Henry de Greystok, clerk, steward of the lands 
set apart for the use of the King*s chamber, and to 
Robert de Haddon, to give full seisin to the custos and col¬ 
lege of these manors of Eure and Bray St. Philibert/*—(Ash- 
mole* s Order of the Garter , p. 168. 1772.) 

1358.—“ Bercar Philbert ii d .**— (A fine. B. C. R.) 

Extent. —This manor comprises the whole of Holyport, Stert- 
green, Foxley-green, Moneyrow-green, and Touchin. 

The Shortford or Shaffelmoor stream from Bray wick-bridge 
to Frith-lane forms the N.W. boundary. Stert-green, the 
Foxley allotment of 1817, and Foxley-green, are wholly within 
his manor. 


83 


PHILIBERTS. 


The boundary is identical with the parish hounds near 
Shipeot-lane. The boundary on Bray common is formed by 
the glebeland which is not within its limits. From the glebe, 
the boundary crosses Long-lane, and Poulton's-lane, and from 
thence to Gadbridge, and so along the Windsor road to 
Budd's-lane-end. Leaving Gey's House to the right, it passes 
to Hendon's Hatch, and runs along the Windsor foot-road by 
the “ Stom," or Stone-pits, as far as Stroud field; from 
whence it returns, and by a circuitous route reaches the Great 
Elm, and so by the Maidenhead road to Bray wick bridge. 

A field near Foxley Green called “Burnesh," within the 
limits of this manor, belongs to the manor of Foxleys. 

There are now (1860) two freeholds within this manor— 
viz., the manor house of Philiberts, with the estate, belonging 
to C. Fuller, Esq.; and a tenement near Foxley Green, re¬ 
cently enfranchized, the property of Mr. Stone. 

There are 33 copyholds incident in the aggregate to 73 
heriots. 

Manor House .—The present house of Philiberts is at least 
the third mansion which has been erected on the same* site. 
The ancient moated residence of the Philiberts was probably 
taken down about the commencement of the sixteenth cen- 
tury, when the old gabled, half-timbered mansion, with its 
spacious bayed windows and twisted chimneys, so familiar to 
the parishioners of the last generation, was erected. A fine 
old view of it is in the possession of Charles Fuller, Esq., of 
Brighton, who has kindly communicated the following par¬ 
ticulars relative to the ancient and modern houses :—“ The first 
stone of the present mansion was laid by my late father's 

eldest sister, I should say about eighty years ago.There 

was a very fine collection of paintings and portraits in the 
house, but they have been scattered and lost sight of fifty or 
sixty years ago; and I believe many of them are now in the 
possession of the Duke of Richmond, and the Wyndham 
family, at Goodwood and Tetworth-houses." 

. following coats-of-arms were copied from escutcheons 
m Old Philibert's house by Sir Thomas Reeve in 1760 

1 Goddard's arms.—Gu. an eagle displayed, or; a chief 
vaire arg. and azure. The arms of Goddard are all 
over a, ceiling in a great room above stairs at Phili¬ 
berts." 

2 Rede, Lord Mayor of London, 1502.—Per pale, or and 
arg. across botonee fitchde between four fleur-de-lis sa. 
in dext. chief a crescent for difference. 



PHILIBERTS. 


89 


3 Meek of Philiberts.—Sa. a dove arg. standing on an 
olive-branch vert; impaling gu. a lion rampant re- 
guardant, or. 

4 Arms of Meek.—Impaling gu. three crescents or; on 
a canton arg. a heart gu. 

From a curious entry in the old church book, it would 
appear that Queen Elizabeth, in her stately progresses, intended 
at least to visit Philiberts. It is as follows:— 

“ Anno 1602. It. Payd to the Fingers when her Majestie 
purposed to come to flilberds ij 3 vi d .” 

The extremely loyal spirit manifested on this occasion may 
be accounted for by another entry made a few months pre¬ 
viously :— 

“ It. Payd for not ringing when the Queen dyned at Folly 
John, iij 3 iiij d .” {A fine for lack of loyalty!) 

The old mansion was for some time the residence of Nell 
Gwinn. Her bust, of white marble, formerly preserved here, 
is said to have been removed to Bramshill House, at the sale a 
few years ago. 

Charles II. was usually accompanied in his visits to Filberts 
by the profligate Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, whom he 
generally met at a public house called the “ Duke’s Head,” in 
Peascod Street, Windsor.— [Murray.) 

Mis . Addenda .—“ Edward Weldon, Esq., of Bray, by his 
will, 1555, bequeathed his lease of the manor of Creswell to 
his wife Isabel.”— (Lyson.) 

“ In 1570 Bichard Williams, Esq., devised the man. of 
Creshulle to his nephew, Will. Norreys, Esq.”— [Lyson.) 

William Goddard resided here about the year 1597, when 
he became possessed of Moors Farm, adjoining.— [B. C. R.) 

A family of the name of Wilcox occupied the manor-house 
from about 1612 to 1670. 

For many years, during the last century, the manor was held 
by the family of Meeke, who sold their lease of it about 1780, 
to Mr. Fuller, banker, ancestor of the present owner. 

A branch of the Beckingham family, of Olantigh, Essex, 
resided here in 1760. 

The manor of Philiberts was purchased in 1859-60 by 
Chas. Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., of Taplovv Court, Lord of the 
manor of Bray. 


90 


HOLYPORT. 


The oldest Court Roll commences October 10th, 1693. 


Homage Jury, 1693 :— 

Ricard* Winch. 
Wills Woodall. 
Mattheus Pettifer. 
Willus Boylett. 
Jobes Southey. 
Petrus Ffranks. 


Will. Lambden. 
Basell Lambden. 
Rob 9 tus Mew. 
Ricus Ford. 
Isaac* Ffellows. 
Sam: Stamary. 


Farmers and Seneschals of the manor:— 

William Chiffinch, 1675 . . James Smith, Esq., Sen. 

Anthony Meek, 1709 . . Will. Peisley, Sen. 

William Rogers, 1728 . . James Hayes, Sen. 


^olypoit. 

This populous hamlet is comprised within the manor of 
Philiberts, and lies about one mile south-west of B^ay. 

“ Horyport,** 1340. (The same etymology is observed on 
another sheet of the same Roll.) 

The termination “port” suggests a Roman origin. 

The corrupt etymology, “ Hollyport,** which has unfortu¬ 
nately been adopted by the Post-office authorities, is wholly 
unsupported by any ancient precedent, as the following table 
will show :— 

IIoliport, 1370. 

Oliport, 1373. 

Olyporte, 1375. 

Holyport, 1373 to 1547, &c. 

Holyportte, 1530. — (JB. C. R.) 

The principal feature of this hamlet is its extensive “ Green/* 
which measures, according to the parish survey, 11a. lr. 12p. 
Part of it was taken in at the time of the enclosure; but those 
persons who then claimed their allotments, have now no right 
to common pasturage thereon. The plot in front of Mr. R. 
Eedes’ house (72 ft. by 40 ft.) was granted to Chas. Hayes, 
Esq., by the parish, Dec. 20th, 1798. 

On the 4th of May, 1804, a serious flood, caused by the 
bursting of a cloud over the forest, deluged the green, when 
Timothy Hughes, a resident in Holyport, was drowned. 

A grand Jubilee was celebrated on the green in the 50th 
year of George III., in commemoration of His Majesty*s long 


HOLYPORT GREEN.—CHUEES. 91 

and prosperous reign. Beer was freely distributed to all 
comers. 

Another great demonstration of loyal sympathy took place 
here on the acquittal of the Queen of George IY.: bonfires 
were kindled, fireworks exhibited, and there was a grand 
illumination of the houses in the vicinity. 

Like every other village-green, it was furnished with those 
old indispensables, a pair of stocks and a whipping-post; of 
which but a very small fragment exists. There were two 
others within this manor; one near Philibert's Pound, and 
the other at Touchen End. 

Anno 1370. “ Henry Budde, &c., complained that John 
Taillour, tithingman, had not reported a certain open well 
lying in the common way at Holyport, to the great danger 
of the public."— (B. C. R.) 

Right of Pasturage. (From an original Notice in the 
possession of Mr. Clement Headington.) 

" Holyport Green . 

"Notice is hereby given, that Plolyport Green and the 
lands adjoining having been set out and allotted to certain 
proprietors, hereunder named, in the under written propor¬ 
tions, by the award of George Smallpiece, Esq., the Commis¬ 
sioner under an Act of Parham*. for * Inclosing Lands in the 
Parish of Bray, in the County of Berks;' an abstract of which 
award has been delivered to the proprietors of the said lands; 
all cattle, the property of persons other than those hereafter 
named, found trespassing therein, will be impounded, after 
the 31** Day of December, 1817. 

“ Names of Proprietors with the number of Cattle allowed. 

“ Ann Duel, 1. Chas. Fuller, Esq., 3. Rev d Rich. Godley, 1. 
Chas. Hayes, Esq 1 ", 3. Ann Hughes, 1. Lucy Hyde, 1. 
Henry Isherwood, Esq., 1. Miss Laurence, 1. Rich d Perry, 3. 
James Pile, 1. John Prater, 1. Edward Rowles, 1. John 
Spratley, 1. James Stanbridge, 1. Jno* Tarsey, 1. John 
Wray, 1. Tho. Waghorne, Esq., 1. Jno. Woodwell, 1. 
George Woodfall, Esq., 1. 

“ N.B. It not being a goose common, all found thereon 
will be impounded. 

“ Holyport, Decemb. 9, 1817." 

Holyport School. —(See Bray School.) 

The principal houses in Holyport are— 

Chuffs.— William Chuffe is mentioned (.B . C . B .) in 1426. 


92 GATS.—HOLYPORT AND BOURN BRIDGE LODGES. 

This mansion was in the family of Hayes from the year 1674, 
until after the death of the late James Hayes, Esq., sometime 
one of the Justices for Wales, whose second son, Charles,, 
resided at another house in Holyport, now the property of 
Mr. Robert Eedes. 

Lieut.-Col. Robert Vansittart, Esq., purchased Chuffs of 
Mr. Stephens, of Bray, one of the heirs of Mr. Waghorne, 
about the year 1853. 

Gays, or Geys. —John Gay, living 1455. (B. C. B.) 

Anno 1621.—“ Ite. Receved for the buriall of Reynald 
Gaye in the church, vii 8 viij d .”—( Churchw . Accts.) 

This mansion, the property of Sir John George Reeve 
He la Pole, and formerly of Lord Lindores, in right of his 
lady, Jane, the youngest daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas 
Reeve, of Hendons, was lately occupied by Robt. Proctor, 
Esq. It is now the residence of F. Dickson, Esq., of London. 

Holyport Lodge, formerly the property and residence of 
George W. Newell, Esq., was purchased in 1859. by Mrs. 
Chari. E. Serocold. 

Bourn Bridge Lodge, the seat of Sir Robert Sidney, 
Knight, a descendant of the ancient and noble house of 
Sidney, in Kent. In the vicinity of the house is Bourn 
Bridge, which in 1503 is termed “ Holyporte Brygge/' 
(B. C. JR.) 

Anno 1620 .—“ For plankes and postes to mend Boorne 
Bridge, iij s iiij d .”—( Churchw . Accts.) 

A little lower down the Bourne is a bridge recently erected 
by Sir R. Sidney, bearing two ancient escutcheons in 
stone, brought from the bridge of Athlone in Ireland, 
erected by Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, in the 
reign of Queen Elizabeth, a.d. 1567. A view of the old 
bridge of Athlone, with the ancient arms, above mentioned, 
over the gateway, is given in the Benny Magazine of 1836, 
at p. 68. The bridge of Athlone was taken down in 1842, 
when the escutcheons were presented to Sir Robert Sidney. 
They are— 

1. Arms of Sidney (or, a pheon azure), between the initials 

H.S.; and 

2. The Royal Arms of England, having for supporters the 

golden lion and red dragon of the Tudor period. 

Below this bridge is— 

Hazle Cottage, a neat and picturesque villa, occupied by 
R. Jones, Esq,; and 


STERT GREEN.-TOUCHIN END. 93 

Laurel Cottage, the property and residence of Mr. 
George Mills. 

On the same side of the green is a small Wesleyan chapel, 
built in 1835, capable of accommodating from eighty to one 
hundred persons. 

In the vicinity of Chuffs is— 

Budd’s Lane, mentioned in 1360 (B. C. R), and Budd’s 
meadows, so called from a family who held this land at an 
early period.—(See Stroud .) 


Stert, or sturt (Grcctt. 

In 1608, Stert Green measured forty acres.— [Survey) 

Forty-two years afterwards it was estimated at twenty 
acres. 

1297 .—“ Willielmus de la Sturte, Decenarius.” 

1333.—“Willus atte Strete.” The same year it was 
presented by the Bailiff that “ Willus atte Sterte, who of the 
Lord held a virgate of land, was dead, by which an ox was 
due for a heriot. ‘ Willus atte Sturte/ his son and heir, 
came and did fealty, and was admitted tenant, and paid 2 s 6 d 
for a relief.” 

1333.—Johannes atte Sterte.— [B. C. R) 

Sterte, or Strete, signifies a street or way. 

In this neighbourhood, in the time of Henry VII. (1506), 
was “ Grymmes dych.”—(See Touchen) 

A small British or Boman sepulchral vessel, formed of a 
light-coloured and half-baked clay, and greatly resembling the 
prsefericula used in libations, was found near the brickyard on 
this green a few years ago. Near it were discovered several 
arrow-heads of bone and flint. 

The names Wick, Stret green, “ Grymesdyche” Paley Street , 
Bury or Berry Hill, clearly indicate the course of an ancient 
track—viz., between Bray and the Boman Station at Lawrence 
Waltham. 


Coucjjm, or ©oucjjin 3£n&. 

Name. —(Twychene, 1340, 1373; Twychen, 1422; Twe- 
chyn, 1450; Twychun, 1498; Tewchyn-lane-end, 1547). 
This singular name is clearly derived from the old English 
words Twa (two), and Chene (chain)—probably from two 
chains having been placed across the diverging roads at 


94 TOUCHIN END.—IWHURST.—GRYMESDYCH. 


this place, the one leading to Hawthorne and the other to 
Waltham. 

In more than one instance in the B. C. R. } the name 
Iwhurst is substituted for Twychen as a tithing; e.g., in 
1360, when the tithings are enumerated (Wyke, Maydenhuth, 
Holy port, Est Ocle, Iwhurst, Ffifhide, Parva Ocle, Altewode, 
and Strode); and again, in 1371, when the same number is 
given. In the grant of land to John de Foxle in 1317, loth 
names are mentioned.—(See Foxleys.) 

Family of Iwhurst from the B. C. R. 

1293 John de Iwhurst. 

1297 Robert, son of Richard (1292) de I., did fealty for 
his father’s lands. Heriot, a horse, price 16*. 
Relief, 4 s 4 d . (1327.) 

1332 Richard, brother of John de Iwhurst, 1334. 

1333 John de I. died, seised of an oxgang and half a vir- 

gate of land. Heriot, an ox, price 14 s 16 d . Alice, 
his widow, retained his lands during the minority 
of his son John. 

1334 Beatrix, and Matilda de I. 

1335 Richard de I., “senior/’ dead in 1358. 

1338 Richard de I., “junior.” 

1362 John Iw., “senior;” in 1370 one of the executors of 
John atte More. 

„ John I., junior/’ “ Decenarius.” 

1422 “ Wiiius Ewerst carnifex de Bray, 1433.” 

1429 Thomas E., suitor, in 1433, 1456. 

,, John E., Decenarius de Est-Okeley. 

1433 John E., Dec: de Twychen Esson, 1450. 

1451 John E. held lands called “ Goring.” 

1454 Thomas Ywhurst, “Dec’ de Twychen.” 

1455 Matilda Ywhest. 

1456 Thomas Y. Esson, per Thomam Ywhurst. 

1490 John Y., “Dec’ de Twychen.” 1503. 

c. 1540 Christopher Jw: of Brayw. married Alice Loggins of 
Stroud. 

In the grant of lands to John de Foxle (1317) in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Touchen, was “Grymesdych.” In 1506, Sir 
Reginald Bray, tenant of Foxley manor, was responsible for 
a ditch (“fossat:”) called “ Grymmesdych,” in the tithing of 
Holyport.-— (B. C. R.) This name is applied to most of the 
ancient British roads and earthworks remaining in England. 

In 1592, George Gayer, son of Robert G. “of Foxleys,” 


MONEY-HOW.—SHEERS’S.—SHIRE FAMILY. 95 

and Ursula, daughter of John Babham, of Cookham, purchased 
56 acres of land at Touchin End, near Bray Slade way, of 
Hugh Ewst and Maria his wife.—( B. C. B.) 

G. Gayer, on Homage Jury at Bray in 1609. 

“ Jan, of Cornall, John Gayer, and Ann his wife (Bap.) 
Nov. 10, 1712.” 

“ Anthoney, son of Cornall John Gayer, and Ann his wife 
(Bap.) Dec. 10, 1713.”—( Church Beg.) 

George, Prince of Wales (afterwards George III.) is said 
to have witnessed the death of the stag for the first time at 
Touchen End, where the ancient ceremony of spotting the 
prince’s face with the blood was performed by the chief hunts¬ 
man. The deer was caught and killed in Price’s Pond, which 
lay in the open green in front of the “ Hind’s Head.” 

iUoncjg=rob) (Smn. 

Like the majority of local names in the parish, this is of no 
very recent origin: “ Monday after the feast of the Nativity 
of the Blessed Mary, Anno 49 Edward III. (1376), it was 
reported that John Paltok had not hitherto cleansed a certain 
ditch at ‘Moneyrewe.’ Ordered to be amended by the next 
court under under penalty of 2 s 6 d .”— (B. C. B.) 

On the south-east side of the green, and opposite the end 
of Blackbird-lane, stood a large and ancient house called 
Sheers’s. This place was for many years occupied by the 
Headingtons, the last of whom was Mr. Clement Headington, 
who died in 1804 at the age of 97. The house is stated by 
tradition to have been an inn much used by packhorse travel¬ 
lers between Windsor and Beading. One of the windows in 
the hall contained stained glass.—(From Mr. C. Headington.) 

There is another estate called Sheer’s in the vicinity of 
Down Place. 

Notices of the Shire Family , and the Estate called Sheers’s f 
from theBi. C. B. 

1334 John Shyre, tithingman: Bobert Shyre, a resident in 
that tithing. (Living near Water Oakley in 1337.) 
1350 Beginald Shire, suitor. In 1376, he did homage for a 
virgate of land, &c., as the heir of Christina, daughter 
of Thomas atte Hatch. 

1422 Thomas Schir, a suitor of court. 

1451 William Shyr: suitor’s fine 4 d . Overburdened the com¬ 
mons at Fifield at the Hatch the same year. 

1476 Alice Shyre, executrix of the will of Thomas S. 


96 


MANOR OF STROUD. 


1498 “Thomas Mauncey pro terris vocat* 'Shirs/” 8 d . 

1511 Ralph Caryngton ancl Julia his wife, relict of Richard 
Sehere, sold “ Scheres-londs ** to Thomas Mauncey and 
his son Robert. 

1532 Sir Robert Jonys of Down Place, died seised of Sherys, 
Kember*s, and Bawdwyn*s, leaving David Morgan 
his heir. 

1536 William Brownsopp, Gent., was elected Collector for the 
lands he held called " Schers.** 

1610 Arthur Page of Down Place, who married Cecily, the 
daughter and coheiress of William Brownsop, died 
seised of “ Sheres,** &c. 

1672 Simon Page died possessed of “Sheerses,** and Wrinckles, 
leaving Lazarus P., his son and h. Relief 7 s .—(Down 
Place.) 

The estate called “ Hutchins,” belonging to Gadbridge 
Farm, was probably parcel of the estate called Hutchins, near 
Down Place, formerly belonging to the Page family. 

“ Anno 1537. Sectatores elegerunt collectorem redd* Dhe 
Regine Joh*em Page pro t’ris vocat* 'Hochins.*** 

John Page, a descendant of the above, held “ Hutchins ** in 
1674.—(See Sheres, anno 1610, and Down Place.) 

“Pokemere juxta Gatebrigge,** occurs in 1370.— (B. C. B.) 
See Foxley Manor. The bridge called “ Gatebridge ** was 
reported to be out of repair in 1370 by the tithingman of 
Holyport. 

Jttattoi - of Stioutt, 

ALIAS SHIPLAKE, ALIAS STAVERTON*S. 

" Stroud** appears to be the original name of this manor and 
tithing. The appellation, " Shiplake,** may have been 
derived from the Shyplake family, who resided in Bray at an 
early period. 

“ Robertus de Shyplake** pleaded his essoin to a citation in 
1293. 

Anno 1333, “Robertus de Shyplake, junior, et Matill* ux* 
eins veniunt hie in plena cur*, et fecerunt ffidel*, <p terr* & 
ten* quae habuerunt de dono & feoffamento Rob 9 ti de 
Shyplake de Henle, ssenior, <p ut in quadam carta q a m pfert 
testat*.** According to another entry, Robert de Shiplake, 
senior, died, seised of one mess, and 6 virgates of land (150 
acres). 

In 1373, Thom. Puttenham, Vicar of Bisham, did homage 
for all the lands, &c., of Robert Shiplake, in Bray. 


pedigree OF STAFFERTC'N,orSTAVERTQN.and LOCGAN, LOGHAM.or LQCGINS.ofthe manor ofSHIPLAKE.OR STROUP, in BRAY & c . 





























































MANOR OF STROUD.—DUSTS. 


97 


The Staverton family became possessed of this manor pre¬ 
vious to 1422, hence the name Staverton’ s; but as there is 
a blank in the B. C. B. between the reigns of Edward III. 
and Henry YI. (45 years), the date of their first possession is 
not known, unless to be found among the Stroud documents 
in the possession of the Corporation of Reading. Eleanor, 
daughter and heiress of Humphrey Staverton and Maud de 
Lollebrok, his wife, brought this estate to her husband, Robert 
Loggins, of the manor of Berry, in White Waltham, at the 
death of the said Maud, in 1524. 

By the marriage of Elizabeth Loggins, great-grand¬ 
daughter of the said Robert, with Sir John Blagrave, of Bul- 
marsh Court, Sonning, this estate became the property of the 
Blagrave family, from whom it was purchased by Abp. 
Laud, who bequeathed it in 1640 to the Corporation of 
Reading. 

The following lands, &c., are enumerated in the B. C. B. of 
1606, as the estates of John Loggins, gent., deceased:— 
Stroud alias Stavertons , Dusts, Stewards, an island called 
Blum-eight, BrooJcs } “ Ac de div 9 sis a? terr’ quond’ pcell 
manerii sue capitle’ messuagii vocat Moores.” The reversion 
of a mess, called Currs , with the lands called Budds, Ewsts , Eles, 
and Puckneys. (? Puckmers, or Pokemere, near Gadbridge, 
in the- possession of Lady Elizabeth Staverton, in 1454.) 
— (B. C. B.) 

Besides the above printed in italics , the following parcels 
are named in Abp. Laud’s will in 1640:—“ Little Stroud, 
Whites, Tilehowse, Kippinges, Culverhowsepiece, Rithies, and 
Ould Grove.” 

The following notices of these estates, and their original 
owners, have been gathered from the B. C. B .:— 

Dusts :— 

1334 Matilda Doust. 

,, Joan, wife of W. Doust. 

1350 A distraint was made on Will. Doust, a socage 
tenant, to provide 1 man for the lord, “ad 
secundam p 9 car.’ ” 

1334 William Doust fined 8 d for breaking and carrying 
away " unum clatem in la Ffrith jacente ultra 
quoddam fossat’ loco unius pontis.” 

1451 John’Duste, Tithingman of Stroud, presented that 
Alice Jurdan had neglected her ditch adjoining 
“ Buddys-lane, over against “ Duste-crofte.” 

H 


98 


BROOKS.—CURRS.—BUDDS. 


Plum-eyt is mentioned in 1333 with “ Rutherpole" and 
“ Buddles-pole," as the hounds of a fishery in the Thames. 
There was a tenement on this island in 1606. 

Brooks :— 

1296 William atte Broke; suitor's fine, 6 d . 

1333 Nicholas atte Broke, aletaster. 

1335 John atte Broke succeeded to the lands formerly 
held by John Hened ; suitor's fine, 6 d . 

1450 William Brokes; fine 12 d . 

1504 (12 Nov :) Robert Wattes died seised of two tene¬ 
ments, called Brokes (Relief 16 d ), and Buddes 
(Rel: 7 d ). His brother Robert succeeded to his 
estates. 

Currs :— 

1358 John le Corre, “ ffin' pro sect' x d ." 

1374 Henry Curr pleaded his “ Essoin" to a citation. 
The foil, year he resided in Little Oakley tithing. 

1524 Matilda Staverton, widow, died seised of Evans 
alias Currs. Rel: 14 s 3£ d . 

Currs is now in the occupation of Mr. Daniel Simmonds. 

Budds (see Holy pork), anciently the property of the Budd 
family:— 

1288 Agnes Bodde (Strode tithing). 

1305 Godefrid, Adam, and Walter Budde. 

1358 John Budde de Wyke. 

1360 Henry B., Tithingman of Holyport; one of the 
executors of Roger de Cressewell in 1350. 

1362 William B. died. Heriot, an ox. 

1372 Henry B. senior, and Alice his wife, “ de Braye." 

1422 Thomas B. “de Strode." 

1425 John B. “de Strode." John Palmer held his 
lands in 1432. 

1429 John B. senior, held the lands of John Mastall and 
Will. Dyer. (April.) 

Emma, his widow, did fealty for his lands in July 
the same year. 

1432 John B. “ de Wyke," a suitor of court. 

1450 Henry B.; suitor's fine, 12 d . 1455. 

1455 Thomas B., aletaster, of East Oakley, Tithing. 

„ William B., Tithingman of Ffifhide. 

1498 Thomas Cannceler held “ Buddys Barnys," in right 
of his wife Blanche, relict of Ralph StavertoD, 
of Stroud. 


EWSTS.-WHITES ALIAS PUNTERS. 


99 


1509 Thomas, son of Nicholas Asper, and Agnes his 
wife, the daughter and heiress of William Budde, 
did homage for “ Budds.” 

1512 Thomas B., Tithingman of “ Ffyfhyd.” 

„ John B. 

In 1640, Budds was “ demised to Simon Winch, gentleman, 
for the tearme of one and thirtie yeares, att the rent of fortie 
poundes yearlie.”—( Laud’s Will. —See Manor of Hendons .) 

Ewsts :— 

1332 Adam Est. 

1340 Roger Michel, of Bray, alienated his estate to 
Thomas Eyst. 

1376 John Est. Essoin. 

1422 John Est, “ ffin’ j) sect’ 4 d .” Tithingman of Stroud. 

1431 John Whitlock did fealty for u Estes/’ 

1498 John Ewst, Woodward of Bray Rigges. Wood¬ 
ward of “ Efyvefett,” in 1503. 

1509 Blanche Cannceler died seised of Ests, and “ Bud¬ 
dy s Barnys.” 

1537 Richard Ewst died, leaving Christopher (aged 15) 
his son and heir. Heriot, a horse worth 10 s . 
Relief 6 s 6 d . 

1592 An estate at Touchen End called “ Jenkin Ewsts” 
was in the hands of Henry Norris. Hugo Ewst 
held land there in 1602. Sir John Norris died 
seised of Jenkin Ewsts in 1612. 

1658 “ Hugh y e sonn of William Eust, baptized y e 14 th 
of November.”—( Ch. Beg.) 

Whites alias Punters (near Old Fifield House) :— 

1297 John le Wyte. 

1333-8 Reginald le Whyte, William, and John (who 
was Woodward of the Rugges—ffin’ £ sect. 8 d ), 
resided in “ Wyke.” 

1362 “ John le Whyte de Strode, who of the lord held a 
mess. & a virgate [of the land called * Hurlond’] 
is dead. John is his son and heir.” 

1422 John Punter. Fine, 4 d . 

,, Robert P., Tithingman of “ Strode.” 

1432 Thomas P. Suitor’s fine, 4 d . 

1432 John Palmer & Will. Saddok did homage for the 

land formerly belonging to Rob* Punter. 

1433 Edward P. of “ Ffifhide.” 

1450 Robert Fowler held “Ponters.” (Fine, 8 d .) 

H 2 


100 


SADDOKS.—STROUD COURT ROLLS. 


1451 John P., Tithingman of Eifield. Jno. P. senior, 
1455. 

1528 “ Sectatores elegerut collectorem redditum due 
Regine Wiilm Staverton, Cleric/ pro una virgat' 
terre voc’ Whytis alias Punters, p redd, p ann. 
x 8 .” He held Punters in 1509. 

1670 Simon Beckley died seised of Punters. 

Saddoks. Two fields belonging to Stroud farm adjoining 
“ Whites” :— 

1288 John, son of Richard Saddok, a tenant of manor. 

1292 William Saddok, fine 6 d , 1334, depastured a cow in 
Bedmede. 

1333 Richard, son of Richard S. 

1334 Elena, relict of Rich d S. 

„ Gunilda S. 

„ Simon S., paid 2 d for pasturage of a cow in Bed- 
mead. 

1335, 8. “ Andr' Saddok Rector ecclie de Whyte Wal¬ 
tham.”— (B. C. B.) Two monuments in the 
chancel of W. Waltham church commemorate 
Gilbert Saddok & his wife— circa 1350.— (Ask- 

mole.) 

1340 William S. died, leaving William S., his son, his 
heir. Heriot, a cow worth 5 s . Relief, 2 s 6 d . 

1375 John S., Tithingman of Stroud. 

1376 Agnes, daughter of John S. 

1454 Robert S., Tithingman of Stroud. 1474. 

1490 John S., Tithingman of Stroud. 

1503 Roberts. “Esson.” 1514. 

Court Rolls. —The ancient Court Rolls of this manor ap¬ 
pear to have been lost during the civil wars, temp. Charles I. 
After the Restoration (1660), the tenants applied to the Cor¬ 
poration of Reading for the re-establishment of the Manorial 
Court, upon which the Mayor of Reading, finding that the 
Rolls were not in his custody, wrote to Mr. Edward Dalby, 
the Recorder, requesting him to attend Sir Orlando Bridge- 
man, who formerly kept Archbishop Laud's courts, “ desiring 
his lordship, if he could, to direct him to the finding out of 
the said Court Rolls.” The following is an extract from 
Mr. Dalby's reply :—“ I have this day presented your letter 
to the Lord Cheife Justice, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, who told 
mee hee would bee very ready to pleasvre the Corporation with 
the Rolls of Bray, but hee much doubted that they might be 


MANOR OF FOXLEYS. 


101 


lost amongst many other writings which were plundered from 
him in the late times of disorder; nevertheless, his lordship 
gaue one of his gentlemen a greate charge to make a strickt 
searche and enquiry for them amongst the remaineing writings 
and papers, and, if they may be found, to deliver them to mee 
for the vse of the Corporacion. 

“ Edward Dalby.” 

“May 8, 1663.” 

(Laud’s Papers, As/ml. Soc .) 

There is a distinct allusion to the Rolls of Stroud manor in 
the B. C. R., 35 Eliz. 1593 

“ Robert Bowyer the Elder, of Bray, of the adge of 70 
yeares .... vpon his oathe sayeth as followeth :—That about 
the thirde yeare of the Queene’s Ma ties Reigne that nowe is, 
there was a Courte Barron houlden at the mannor of Stroude 

by oulde Mr. Symon Loggins, his stewarde.and, as he 

remembreth, he hearde the Court Roles of the saide manor 
reade, wherein was conteyned, that half an acre in Sellifere, 
half an acre in Withifeare, and a garden plott over againste 
Claveringes gate, were houlden of the said mannour, by the 
rent of 20 d by the yeare.” 

jnanoi- of droilejis. 

The name of this manor is derived from the Eoxle family, 
who seem to have settled here some time before the year 
1321, when a licence was granted to John de Eoxle to make a 
park there :—“ Imparcare quandam placeam terr’ prati pastur’ 
et spineti de solo suo proprio in quodam loco vocat Pokemere 
[Puckmere, near Eoxley Earm] in Bray, infra met’ Eorestse de 
Windesore.”— (Cal. Rot . Pat.) As no members of the Eoxle 
family are mentioned in the B. C. R. previous to this period, 
it is highly probable that the above Sir John was the first of 
the family who settled in Bray. His widow, Constance, died 
in 1333, when Thomas, their son and heir, succeeded to the 
manor and estates, who was succeeded in 1361 by his son 
Sir John, who died in 1378, and was buried in the Chapel 
of All Saints in Bray Church. Sir John was succeeded by 
his illegitimate son, Thomas de Eoxle, who died in 1436. 
William de Eoxle, of Apuldorefield, only legitimate son of 
Sir John de Eoxle and Matilda (Brocas), died without issue 
before his father in 1376. His eldest sister, Katharine, wife 
of John de Warbleton, of Warbleton (Sussex), and Sherfield 



102 


FOXLEY MANOR. 


(Hants), was therefore (by a law peculiar to the manor of 
Bray) heir to the manor of Foxleys after the death (in 1436) 
of Thomas de Foxle (illegitimate son of Sir John by Joan 
Martyn); for William de Warbleton, son of Thomas de War- 
bleton and grandson of the said Katharine, was seised 
(28 Sept. 1452.— B. C. R.) of the manor of Bray, with lands 
in “Bray, Cokham , and Benfeld” — i.e., the manor of Foxleys. 
(In 1450 “ Wills Warbulton, Armig’ ” paid for his suitor’s 
fine 20 d .— B. C. R.) In the same entry, Thomas Rekys, of 
London, and Sibill, his wife, one of the eo-heiresses of Eliza¬ 
beth (Warbleton), wife of John Syfrewast, of Clewer, “ aunte” 
to the said William Warbleton, are mentioned as the next 
heirs of William Warbleton. 

In 1444, Thomas Rekys was the largest of the King’s 
tenants within the manor of Bray. (Fine xx d , the same as 
paid by W. Warbleton.) 

Anno 1454.—“Robertus Saddok Decenar’ de Strode pres’ 
qd. fovea iuxta Wadislane obstupata est in defectu escuraciois 
Thome Rekis (2 d ) gne noc’, &c.” {John de Foxle died in 
1325, seised of lands at Wades-lane.)* 

In 1498‘ Charles Rippon did suit, &c., for Foxle manor, 
but seems to have resided here as early as 1487, when “ Caro¬ 
lus Ripon Yalectus Corone Dni’ Reg’ ” was fined 12 d, for 
cutting down three “ beches” in “ Altwod.” 

Anno 1 Henry VIII. (1509 ).—“ Ad istam cur’ venit Ed- 
mundus Bray p deputat suu Rogeru Bolde, &c. Et hie in 
plena cur’ ostend’ cart’ ffeoffament’ que sequit’ in hec verba : 
HenricusJDei gra’ Rex Anglie, &c. Omib 3 ad quos present’ 
Ire pven 9 nt Saltm. Sciat’ qd WiHms Lincolii Epus, Regi- 
naldus Bray, mil, AY ill ms Hody, Hugo Oldam cleric’, Hum- 
fridns Conyngsby s 9 viens ad legem, Ricus Emson, Rob 9 tus le 
Straunge Armig’, & Willus Cape in cur’ nra coram Justic’ 
nils apud Westm’ implicav 9 unt AYillm Body & John Coplond 
de Man 9 io de Foxley cu ptih, ac quatuor mes’, quadragint’ 
acris terr’, ducent’ acr’ p a ti, cent’ acr’ pastur’, cent’ acr’ bosc’, 
et octo librat’ reddit’ cu ptih in Bray, Cokeham, Whit* 
Waltham & Benfeld, p lire nrih de ingressu p dissiam in 
lepost, &c. Dat’ apud AYestm’ xi rao die Julij, Anno Regni n 
xiiij, &c.” 

A/V illiam, Lord Sandys, held the manor of Foxleys in 1522. 
In 1^47 it was in the possession of Dionysia, his widow. Anne 
Sandys, “ of Foxleys,” was buried in Bray Church in 1632. 


* Anno 49 Hen. III. (1265) Henry Wade “ Co cus Regis ” had a grant of the 
land called Mount Skipput’s, or Wade’s Farm.— (Rot. Chart*) 


FOXLE FAMILY. 


103 


“ The author of the life of the Lord Keeper Williams {temp. 
Jas. I.) mentions his being on a visit at a house of the Lord 
Sandys, five miles from Windsor, called Foxleys.”—(. Lyson.) 

The manor was afterwards in the families of Murray 
(Henry Murrey, Esq., died seised of Foxleys in 1674. “The 
collector was ordered to seize the best live beast, or, in defect 
thereof, the best good, for aheriot.‘Relief,’ 16 s 9 d .”— {B. C.R.) 
and Bayning (a member of the B. family, was created a Peer, 
with the title of Baron Foxley). 'It was purchased of Wil¬ 
liam Mackworth Praed, Esq., in 1765, by Henry Vansittart, 
Esq., who was unfortunately lost in the Aurora frigate, and 
is now the property of Mrs. Newcomen, of Kirkleatham Hall, 
Yorkshire, one of his descendants. 

The site of the ancient manor-house is surrounded by a 
deep quadrangular moat, of about 350 yards in circumference. 
A drawbridge is said to have existed on the north-west side : 
of this, however, as of the house, which was burnt down more 
than a century ago, not a vestige remains. 

The manor farm, in the occupation of Mr. Jno. Briginshaw, 
contains 289a. lr. 26p. In the conditions of sale, fixed 
for 23rd Aug., 1849, it was stipulated that the title-deeds to 
the estate should commence with the deeds of lease and 
release dated Sept., 1764, &c., the several deeds of that date 
comprising the conveyances of the original estate to a trustee 
of the then purchaser, ancestor of the vender. 

NOTICES OE THE EOXLE FAMILY. 

Arms. —Gules, two bars arg. 

In 1309, John de F. was constituted a Baron of the Ex¬ 
chequer, and as such was summoned to Pari, with the rest of 
the judges and king’s council.—(Bank’s Baronage .) 

In 1313, he gave forty shillings to the King for licence to 
give a certain tenement in “Staines” to Nicholas Hagman, 
parson of Everslee, to send a chaplain to celebrate daily in his 
chapel at Bromeshull.— [Abb. Treas. Rolls , 6 Ed. II.) 

In the same year he purchased the royal pardon for one 
mark, for obtaining a certain tenement in Bray without the 
King’s licence.— {Abb. Rot. in Cur . Scac.) 

Anno 10 Edw. II. (1317), " Rex de vastis R. de Wyndesore 
in com’ Berk’ dedit et concessit Johi de F: quaterviginti & 
septem acras medietatem unius rode, centum triginta & 
quinque perticatas et quartern ptem, unius pticate et buticium 
apud Fifhyde, Halseleshull, Grymesdych, Maydewell, Iwhurst, 


104 


FOXLE FAMILY. 


Twychene, & Haleshurst, tenend eidem Johi de Foxle et 
hered' suis p redditum decern et septem solid', decern denar', 
& uno quadrant', &c., in sched (Ri. 2)."— [Abb. R. in Cur. Scac.) 

In the same year he obtained a charter for Free Warren 
throughout the manors of Bray, Everslee, Hayshill, and 
Bromeshill.—( Rot. Chart. 10 Ed. II.) 

John de Foxle died Nov., 18 Edw. II., seised, with 
Constance, his wife, of the following estates [Inq. p. Mort.) 

“ IIurtestrete, 35 acr' & un' rod' & 10 perticat' terr' in 
Foresta de Windesore. 

“ Strateshulle, ] 3 acr' & 3 rod' terr' ibm. 

“ Haleshull, 13 acr' terr' & dimid', &c. 

“ Clenhurste, A 

“ Fifhideslane, 5-70 acr' et un' rod' terr', &c. 

“Wadeslane, J 

“ Braye, 7 acr' terr'. 

“ Waltham, 10 acr' terr'. 

“Braye, unum messuag' & iiij.— xx acr' terr'." 

His widow Constance died in 1333 [B. C. R.) } when 
Thomas, their son and heir, succeeded to the estates in Bray, 
&c. (Relief, vij s vij d ). 

In 1330, he was appointed constable of Windsor Castle. 
In 1340, he was one of the commissioners appointed to 
inquire into the right of pasturage in “ Old Field."— 
(B. C. R.) 

In 1342, having made a distraint on the man r of Morton 
of 71 head of cattle, in his capacity of const, of W. Castle, he 
purchased 5 cart-loads of straw of the Abbot of Waltham at 
“ H yd worth," for 2 s 6 d , including a stipend of 15 d for the 
carriage of the same to the castle, for the sustenance of the 
said cattle.—(Nichols' Collec. iiii. 225.) 

In 1359, he was placed under a distraint to account for 
cutting down three beech-trees in Altwood.— (B. C. R.) 

lie died in 1361, seised, amongst other estates, of the manor 
of Bray, &c., with divers lands in White Waltham and Bin- 
field, when his son. 

Sir John de Foxle, succeeded to his estates. This Sir 
John, in 1377, had a grant of the custody of the castle of 
Southampton, the park at Lyndhurst, and the New Forest, 
for life, at the annual rent of £130.— [Rot. Pat ., 50 Ed. III.) 

He died in the month of Nov., 1378, and was buried in the 
Chapel of All Saints, in the south aisle of Bray Church. (His 
fine, but mutilated, brass still exists.) The will of Sir J. 
Foxle, extracted from the Episcopal Register of William of 


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WILL OF SIR JOHN FOXLE. 


105 


Wykeham, preserved in Winchester Cathedral, vol. ii., fol. 169, 
is printed in the 15th vol. of the Archeological Journal , in 
the original Latin., The will is dated 5th Nov., 1378, and 
was proved at Southwark the 1 st of December, in the same 
year. 

Extracts :— 

“ I give and surrender my soul to God, the glorious Virgin 
Mary, and all the saints; and my body to be buried in the Chapel 
of All Saints in the church of the parish of Bray, near to the 
tomb of my father, and of others my ancestors. 

“ I bequeath for distribution to the poor on the day of my 
burial, £xx. 

“ I bequeath for the celebration of mass, according to the 
appointment of my executors hereinafter named, to the altar 
in the chapel aforesaid, for the weal of my soul and for the 
souls of my ancestors and benefactors, £xx. 

“ Item. I bequeath to the altar in the same chapel, for the 
use of the chaplains, for the souls aforesaid, and for the souls 
of all the faithful departed, as well to the said altar as to the 
other altars within the church aforesaid, when there shall be 
celebrations, a large missal, bound in red leather; a chalice 
gilt, with a round foot; with a silver paten, gilt, to the same 
use: a sacerdotal vestment, with an albe with orfray of blue 
silken tissue; with a chasuble of the said texture, with a stole 
and maniple of the same, to the same use, in the church afore¬ 
said. 

“ Item. I give to the fabric of the church aforesaid l s . 

“ Item. I will and order that my executors, out of the 
goods of my father and mother, purchase a marble stone for 
their tomb, in the Chapel of all Saints in the church of Bray 
aforesaid: and that they cause the said stone to be decently 
wrought with image and writing of metal; viz., of my said 
father in his arms, and of my mother pourtrayed in arms; 
viz., of the arms of my father and mother aforesaid: and I 
will that in the ordering of the said stone my executors in all 
things act according to the appointment and disposal of my 
revered lord, the Lord Bishop of Winchester. — (W. of 
Wykeham?) 

“Item. I will and ordain that my executors aforesaid 
purchase another marble stone suitable for my tomb, when I 
shall be buried; and that the said stone be prepared with 
writing and image of metal; viz., of myself in my arms, and 
my deceased wife on the right side of my image, depicted in 
arms, viz., with my arms, and those of my said wife; and 


106 


MANOR OF LOWBROOKS. 


with the figure of my surviving wife in my arms, to the right 
of my image. 

“ Item. I bequeath to Joan my consoi;t an ancient psalter, 
bound in bluish grey leather, of middle size: a psalter of 
smaller size, bound in diapred silken tissue; an ancient ponti- 
fonal of good size, noted with legends from the psalter, &c.: 
and an ancient gradual with sequences, Kyrie, &c., bound in 
bluish grey leather; the use of which I will that my said 
consort have whilst she lives, and when she shall have de¬ 
parted hence, they remain to her sons aforesaid as ornaments 
for the chapel as before ordained .”—(A private chapel .) 

Thomas Foxle (natural son of Sir John by Joan Martyn), 
died in 1436, leaving issue an only daughter, Elizabeth, wife 
of Sir Thomas Uvedale, of Wickham, Hants, Sheriff of Sussex 
1437-8, ob. 1474, by whom she had issue—Henry, who died 
11 Oct., 1469, and Elizabeth and Agnes, who were both living 
in 1436. 

Thomas Foxle was buried near his ancestors in the Chapel 
of All Saints, Bray.—(See Inscriptions .) 

JUanor of &oMhookg. 

(Lollebrok, 1292; Lolebrok, 1368; Lyllebrok, 1395; Lol- 
brookes, 1656; Lillibrooke, 1659.) 

Lollebrook, if derived from Lollen, signifies the murmuring 
or rippling brook.—Compare “ Wetersyngemed,” mentioned 
in the B. C . R. in 1336; i.e. 3 the meadow where the water sings 
or murmurs. 

The family of Lollebrook anciently held this manor. 

Robert de Lollebrok, mentioned B. C. R ., from 1292 to 
1327, was one of the Knights of the Shire for Berks in. the 
parliament held at York, 16 Edw. II. (1323).— [Not. Pari.) 

“Edw d . III. Anno decimo quinto (1342) No. 6. — (Sec d 
nos.) 

“ WilFus Trussel de Cubles’don pro Johna, ux* Rob 9 ti de 
Lullebrok. 

“ Cokham 140 acr’ terr’, &c., A 

“ Shotesbrok, & \ remanent l Berks.” 

Waltham Sci Laurentij, j eidem Wiiio, J 

(Calk Inquisip. mort.) 

He was succeeded by Thomas Lollebrok, who died in 1376, 
in which year his son Thomas, and his wife Isabel, appeared 
at the Manorial Court of Bray, to exhibit their title, &c., to the 
Manor of Lowbrooks. 


MANOR OF LOWBROOKS. 


107 


In 1376, John Berkele, Tho. Cruchefield, and Rob. Baker, 
of Bray, resigned the lands which they held of this manor, to 
the said Thomas and Isabel. 

In 1395, “Thom. Lyllebrok” paid 6 d for his suitor’s fine at 
Cookham court.— C. C . R.) 

“ Hen. IV. Anno 12. No. 1. Thom: Lillebrook, Armiger. 
Ilurle, mess’ & terr’, Berks.”— {Cal. Inq.p. mort.) 

Humphrey Staverton, of Stroud (living 1508), married 
Maud, the heiress of one of the Lillebrook family .—{HarL 
MS., No. 1110.) 

In 1487, Thomas Martyn, Esq., died seised of the man r of 
Lowbrooks, then held of the principal manor at the yearly rent 
of 42 s 4 d , 

William, son and heir of the said Thom, did homage for 
Lowbrooks in 1489, after a distraint of 6 oxen, valued at £3, 
and 2 horses, worth 13 s 4 d .— {B. C.R.) 

Christopher Martyn, who died in 1525, seems to have been 
the last of the Martyns of Lowbrooks. The manor was soon 
afterwards in the Englefield family, for “Elizabeth, Lady 
Englefield, by her will, bearing date 1544, directs it to be 
sold, with other estates, for the payment of debts.”—(. Lyson .) 
Francis Englefield, “of Lowbrooks,” did suit, &c., at Bray 
Court in 1601. In 1631, he was succeeded by his son, Sir 
William Englefield, from whom this manor, &c., was pur¬ 
chased by Henry Partridge, “ citizen and cooper,” of London 
(afterwards an alderman), while it was sequestrated by Par¬ 
liament. 

“ Haberdashers’ Hall. Co. 1645. 

“We, whose names are under written, of the Comitee of 
Parliam* For the County of South’ton, now sitting at Winton, 
doe certify vnto whom it shall eoncerne, That Willm Engle- 
feild, of Spencers, gent., did not beare Armes at all in these 
vnhappy warres that wee ever heard of, and that his Estate is 
seq d onely as a papist for his recusancy, and that he doth or 
may recieve by order from us, the third part of his Estate 
in this County. Giuen vnder our hands the 10th of Aprill, 
1646. 

(Signed) Richd. Norton. John Bulkeley. 

John Wolueridge. Ric. Moore. 

Tho. Cole. Alex* Wilson.” 

“Received by me Will. Englefeyld, Esq r , of Henry Par^ 
tridge, Citizen and Cooper, of London, the some of ffifteene 
hundred pounds of lawfull money of England, menc5ed and 


108 


PARTRIDGE FAMILY. 


expressed in & by one paire of Indentures of lease bearing 
date w th these p’nts made between me, the said Wilkm En- 
glefeyld & Mary my wife, of thone, and the said Henry 
Partridge, of tip other part: Of w ch said some of ffifteene 
hundred pounds I doe hereby acknowledge the receipt. And 
thereof and of euery part thereof acquite and discharge the 
said H. P., his executo rs , adm ra , and assignes foreuer by these 
p’nts. In witness whereof I haue herevnto sett my hande & 
seale. Yeoven the Seavententh day of ffebruary, 1647, 
Anno q* Yicesimo tertio R. R. Caroli. 

“ William Engleeyld. 

“ Haberdashers’ Hall, London, 

14 Maii, 1656.” 

“ These are to certify at the request of Mr. Hen: Partridge, 
Cittizen & Cooper, of London, That vpon search made into 
the bookes & papers relating to composic5ns in my custody, 
I finde that he compounded for two third pTes of the manno r 
or farme of Lolbrookes, in the parish of Bray, in the County 
of Berks, being seq d for y e recusancy of W m Englefield, of 
Catterington, in the county of Southampton, w ch said manno r 
or farme was certified to be of the yearly value of 160£ per 
ann., the two third parts whereof amounts to 106 1 13 s 4 d , for 
w ch the fine was set 22° Dec r , 1647, at 213 1 6 s 8 d , w ch was 
so confirmed the 21 day of December, 1649, and the said 
fine was all paid into the Tresury by the 9 th of May, 1648. 

“Exaled by me, J. Bayly, Reg r .” 

The above-named Henry Partridge, his son Henry (who was 
Sheriff of Berks in 1670), and his daughter Hannah, are 
buried in Bray Church. 

Robert, son of the last-named Hen. P., purchased the 
property in Norfolk (where the family has since resided) at 
the end of the 17th century. The manor and farm of Low- 
brooks were sold by Hen. Sam. Partridge, Esq., of Hockham 
Hall, Thetford, Norf., to the late Mr. Lewis Rose, from 
whose executors it was purchased a few years since by Chas. 
Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., of Taplow Court. 

Miscellaneous. —A subterranean passage is said to have 
been discovered beneath a mound in the orchard adjoining the 
old house, about forty or fifty years ago. 

A stone bearing mouldings of the early part of the 14th 
century, was found during the construction of the new farm 
house occupied by Mr. Darby. 


MANOR OP CRUCHFIELD. 


109 


JWanor of ©rucpeltr, or ftoriJ’g 

According to Hearne, this name signifies “ The field of the 
Cross,” from a cross having been cut in the ground at this 
place for a parish boundmark. The manor was probably 
denominated Lord’s Lands from its having originally 
formed a royal dairy. 

Circa 1220. <e Henr’ fil’ Galfri de Baggesite ten 3 quandam 
vaccariam in Cruchesfeld p xxv. solid’, quam Alanus de Nuvill 
fecit, et tradidit Galffo avo predci Henr’.”— {Testa de Nevill.) 

Anno 1250, Henry Lovell had a grant of Cruchefeld.”— 
[Rot. Chart.) 

Anno 1257, Henry Lovell, <( Cocus Regince received a grant 
of “ Crechefeld” in Bray.— {Rot. Chart.) 

Anno 1272-3.—“ They report that Henry Lovell holds one 
hide of land in Crussefeld, formerly the King’s vaccary, 
pertaining to the manor aforesaid [Bray], from the time of 
King Henry [III.], the King’s father.”— {Hundred Rolls.) 

Cnichfield Family, from the B. C. R. 

1333 John de Crutchefeld. 

1340 Thomas Cruschfeld. Suitor’s fine, 12 d . Succeeded 
to the manor of “ Shobenhangres” on the death 
(in 1362) of John de Shobenhangre, and his wife 
Isabel, pursuant to the will of Thomas de Shob: 

He died in 1368-9, and was succeeded by 

1368 Thomas C., his son and heir, then in his minority. 
Relief, 4 s . In 1376, tenant of lands belonging to 
Thomas de Lollebrok, and his wife Isabel. 

1422 Thomas C., appointed collector of the King’s rents 
for his lands called Shobenhangres. 

1433 John C., one of the gentry of Berks, returned by the 
Commissioners 10 th Hen. YI. 

1487 “ John C., of London [ f Gentilman,’ 1495], ought to 
amend his ditch in Cruchfeld-lane.” 

Died 1495.— {R, C. R.) 

1495 Thomas Caunceler did fealty for lands, &c., formerly 
John Cruchfeld’s. 

1503 Katerine Ffowler, for lands, &c., formerly John 
Crowchfeld’s, 12 d . 

1508 George C., fine 12 d . 

1514 William C., of Cruchfeld; suitor’s fine, 12 d . 

Died 1520. Brother to Alice Preston. George C. 
was his son and heir. 

Cruchfield Tithing. —In 1422 an inquest was held at 


110 


LEGEND OF HAWTHORN. 


Bray, to determine “whether the tenement which John 
Twychyn held in Twyehyn, within the precincts of Bray, was 
within the tithing of Twychyn, that he might pay to the 
View of Frank Pledge, at Bray, or whether it was within the 
tithing of Cruchefeld.”— (B. C. R.) 

In 1606, a field called “Lord’s Land” was the property of 
Humphrey Hide, gent.—( B. C. R.) 

The estate and manor of Lord’s Lands were bequeathed by 
William Goddard, of Westminster, to the Fishmongers’ 
Company in 1609, for the support of the Hospital which he 
had founded in Bray. 

“ Mrs. [query] Sugden, the sister of Mr. Goddard, offended 
at her brother having bequeathed the manor to the Company, 
destroyed by fire all the documents she had belonging to the 
manorial rights, and, it is supposed, among the rest the 
customs and the books relating to the admissions, &c.”— 
(Communicated by the Fishmongers' Company.) 

The family of Hercy (descended from Mauvesin de Hercy, 
of Grove, Notts, temp. Hen. III.) have resided at Cruchfield 
House for more than 250 years. 

In the vicinity of Cruchfield is “ Hawthorn Hill,” which 
is said to have received its name from a venerable hawthorn 
tree, which grew on the premises now occupied by Miss 
Parry. With this tree is connected 

Hecjenh of f^afotfjorn. 

Many years ago, a certain inhabitant of Hawthorn was 
admonished in a dream to repair to London Bridge, where he 
was informed he should hear of something to his advantage. 
As the vision was thrice repeated, the warning was not disre¬ 
garded. Having waited on the bridge a considerable time, he 
was at length accosted by a citizen, who, having heard the 
nature of his mission, advised him to return, and to take no 
further notice of the affair, for he also had been recommended 
in a dream to go to a certain place called “ Hawthorn,” 
where, beneath a venerable thorn, was deposited a pot of gold, 
but where that place was he could not ascertain. Our traveller 
made no reply, but speedily returned to Hawthorn, where, in 
the place intimated by the citizen, he discovered the hidden 
treasure. Some time afterwards, two scholars from Oxford 
happening to call at his house for a refreshment, observed 
the pot on the shelf, and carefully examined it. The vessel 
was surrounded by a Latin inscription, which, for the benefit 
of their unlettered host, they thus translated— 

“ Beneath the place where this pot stood, 

There is another twice as good.” 


HAWTHORN FAMILY. 


Ill 


According to tradition, a second search proved both the truth 
of the inscription and the accuracy of the translation. The 
worthy innkeeper suddenly grew rich and prosperous, and the 
house, which for years had borne the sign of “TheWoodman,” 
was ever afterwards called “ The Money-pot.” 

FAMILY OF HOTHORNE, OR HAWTHORNE. 

The following notices of this family have been gathered 
from court rolls, registers, and other authentic sources; hut 
whether the individual alluded to in the legend was the 
paternal ancestor of the Hawthorn family, is a question which 
must be solved by some more competent antiquary. 

1520 John Hothorn died, leaving Henry H. his son and 
heir. 

1531 Henry H. died, leaving Roger H. his son and heir. 

1535 John Bysshop held 4 closes at “ Crychefeld,” abut¬ 
ting upon “Crychefeld lane,” and another field 
adjoining the land of Thomas Hothorne. In 
1533, Thomas H. was appointed Collector for the 
lands he held called “Chaunters” by the yearly 
rent of 20 s 9 d .— (B. C. R.) 

1538 William H. died, leaving William his son and heir. 

1601 William Hawthorne, a copyhold tenant. Church¬ 

warden 1600-2. 

1602 Thomas H., Jun r , purchased “ Brownings” in Holy- 

port. 

1605 John H. held a coppice at Binfield, called “ Pieking’s- 
Points.” 

c . 1605 One of this family married Anne, dau. of Gilbert 
Loggins. 

1650 (See Survey) 

1656 Robert H. occurs to 1664. Suitor’s fine, 6 d . 

1678 Lazarus Page, marr d Elizabeth Hathern, of Binfield, 
Aug st 15 th . 

(18th Sept., 1650, Robert Bishop, of Cruchfield, died, 
leaving George B. his son and heir.—See above.) 

Hcputctt JWattorg. 

S>l)opptni)angerS, anciently Shobenhangre (1288). (A.-S. 

Scoben = woods; and Hangan = to hang, from the Goth. 
Haugh = high—i.e., The High } or hanging woods.) 

1288 John de Shobenhangre (see Bray Mill) held cer¬ 
tain lands by the tenure called “ Garserthe”— 
i.e., Ploughing for the Lord of the principal manor. 


112 SHOPPENHANGERS. 

1288 Thomas de S. A suitor in 1293. 

1297 Richard, son of John de S. “Wodeward” in 
1336. Elected tithingman, in the place of Walter 
Gylemyn, in 1340. 

Joan, daughter of Richard de S. 1335. 

1297 Roger de S. 

„ Alexander de S. 

„ Christina de S. 

1333-5-8 JohndeS. Suitor’s fine, 12 d . In 1340, he was 
one of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into 
the right of pasturage in “Eldefeld.” Died 1362. 

1335 Alice de S. 

1335 “ Alicia de S. in ihla (2 s ) pro t’ns sicci ap d les 
Rugges.” 

1341 John de Shobenhengraue was one of the Knights of 
the Shire for Berks, in the Pari, held at York 14 th 
Edw d III.— {Notit. Pari.) 

1341 Walter de S. He held an estate at Bradley, in the 
Manor of Cookham, in 1358.—( Cookh . C. R.) 

1362 The death of John de S. was presented, when Thomas 
de S., of Water Oakley, and William Sherreve, vicar 
(his executors), reported that the estates of the said 
John, by his will, were to be retained by Isabel, 
during her life, and after her decease, to remain to 
Thomas de “ Cruchefeld,” and his heirs for ever. 

Isabel de S. died in 1362, when the said Thomas 
de C. became possessed of her estates. He died in 
1368, seised of 1 hide of land, and was succeeded by 

Thomas de Cruchefeld, his son, then a minor, 
who paid for his “ Relief,” 4 s . 

In 1422 this Thomas was appointed Collector 
for his lands, called “ Shobenhangres.” 

(For remainder of this family, see “ Cruchfield.”) 

In 1550 Emma Stanyland did suit, &c., for her 
lands, called “ Shortenhangers.” 

1601 “ Jasperus Leake Armig’ pro terr’ suis vocat “ Shop- 
penhangers.” 

It was afterwards in the Winches, who resided 
here as early as the year 1600. 

1649 Richard Winch, of Shop., did fealty, &c., for his lands 
called Shop., and was admitted, &c. 

He was succeeded by his son, James W., who 
died in 1699, leaving his son, 

Richard Winch, his heir, whose only surviving 
child, Elizabeth W., brought this estate in mar- 


MANOR OF OCKWELLS. 


113 


riage (1738) to Robert Holden, Esq., of Lincoln's 
Inn, whose co-heiresses, Charlotte and Elizabeth H., 
married respectively the Rev. Sir Adam Gordon 
(see Monuments) and Richard Webb, of the Inner 
Temple, and Binfield, whose son, Richard Holden 
Webb, sold his interest in Shopp. to the Rev. Sir 
Adam Gordon in 1799, from whom this estate was 
purchased in 1801, by Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., of 
Taplow Court. It is now the property of his son, 
Chas. P. Grenfell, Esq., Lord of the Manor of 
Bray. 

#lattor of ©tfej&olf, or ©tfcfoclte. 

The manor of Ocholt, or Ockholt, belonged at an early 
period to the family of Norreys, ancestors of the Lords Nor- 
reys, of Rycote. 

Anno 52 Hen. III. (1267), “ Rex concessit Ricardo de 
Norreys, Coco Reginse, in feodo, perpresturam in Foresta de 
Windsor, vocat ‘ Ocholt/ pro annuo reddit' quadragint' solid'." 
—( Cal . Rot. Pat.) (See p. 120.) 

The following Notices of tfyis Family have been gathered from 
the Court Rolls of Bray (B.), and Coohham (C.). 

1305 Richard le Noreys, paid 3 d. for the pasturage of 
his cattle in the Frith (near Ockwells) in 1334. 
He died in 1337, when it was agreed by the 
tenants that his executors—viz., John le Noreys, 
Hugo de Braybest, and Roger de Crosseby, Yicar 
of Bray, should have the whole of the growing 
crops, with the use of his lands for a whole year, to 
pay to the lord his proper dues, according to the 
custom of the manor of'B.— (B.) 

1337-8 “Will'us, filius Ricardi le Noreys." —(B.) 

1370 Roger le Noreys, in 1376 had 2 calves in “ Ast- 
croft," 2d. He died in 1422 (B.), seised of lands, 
&c., in Bray. 

1424 Thomas Noreys. 

1447 John Norres, “ Armig." steward of the manors of 
, Bray and Cookham “for life." — (B.) Fined 3d. 
in 1450 for the improper state of a ditch in 
“ Clenehyrst-lane." He died in 1467, seised of 
“Okeholt Maner, voc' f Noreys Manor.' 

Moore's maner. 

i 


114 


OCKWELLS. 


Hyndens maner* in Bray. 

Spencers maner’ et j in Cokeham . 

Elyngtons maner, J 
Heyndons maner* in Cokeham. 

Bray, ) multa messuagii, molendina, 

Cokeham, >- terrse, ten*, pastur*, bosc*, 
Maydenhithe, J prat*, reddit*, &c.** 

(Inquis’ post Mortf.) 

1451 William Norys (B.), suitor’s fine]2^. (C.), 1489. 
In 1493, W. N. held land in Cookham, called 
“ Cokdonsee” and “ Terrys.** — (C.) In 1492, 
W. N., “milit.,” held an estate in Bray called 
“ Erle-land.** In 1495 succeeded to the estates 
of “ Moris, Hendonys,** “ Look Place,** and 
“ Ffrench’s Tenement,** on the death of Margaret, 
Duchess of Norfolk, relict of John Noreys, Esq., 
his father. He died in 1507.— (B.) 

1455 Roger Noreys. — (B.) 

1489 R. N., 12^.—(C.) 

1493 Edmund N., elected collector for the lands he held, 
called “ Adhelyng.** (? Athelyng.—1288, “ Johes 
Athelyng.”)— (B.) Living 1504. \ld. 

1498 Edward Norres.— (B.) 

1504 Robert N., “ Gent.,** Woodward of Altwood. War- 
rener of Twychene, in 1512. 

1507 Sir William N., who was commander in the King’s 
army at the battle of Stoke, died seised of Ock- 
wells. 

1520 John Norreys, Esq., held Hendons Manor. “ Gent,” 
1523. “ Miles,” 1535. In 1540, app d col¬ 

lector for his lands called “ Palmers.” J. N. 
“de Bray, Gent,” suitor, Gd. 1537. 

1537 It was presented that “ Sir Lionel Norres died since 
the Feast of St. Michael last, without lawful male 
issue, by virtue of which, his estates in Bray descend 
to Henry Norres, son of Henry Norres, Esq., son 
and heir of Sir Edward Norres, son of Sir William 
Norres, as by the last will of the said William fully 
appeareth.”—(B.) 

In 1597, Henry Norres possessed Chauntry House, in 
Bray, an estate at Touchen End, called Jenkyn 
Ewsts, with other lands near “ Bray-slade-way.” 

In 1524, “ Sir Thomas Ffetyplas died seised of a certain 


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tenement- called f Okeplace/ lying in Altewoodde. Heriot, a 
horse; value 26$. Relief, 38$.”— {B. C. R.) He married 
Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Wm. Norres, Knt. (ob. 1507), by Joan, 
daughter of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, his second wife. 

The family of Finch, of Hertfordshire, became possessed of 
Ockwells about the year 1679, from whom it was purchased 
in 1786, by Penyston Portlock Powney, Esq. It is now 
the property of Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., of Taplow 
Court. 

Mr. Ralph Day resided at Ockwells in 1661. His sons 
were— 

1. Samuel Day (born 1665, died 1670), and 

2. Thomas Day, “of Ockwells,” bap. 1667, buried 4 July, 

1749. By his wife, Sarah (buried 27 Feb. 1759), 
he had issue, Katherine (died 29 May, 1761), and 

Ralph Day, bap. 1707, living 1749 ; married Sarah . . . ., 
by whom he had issue (see Monuments )— 

Mary Day, buried 22 Sept., 1739.— {Registers and Monu¬ 
ments.) 

The house, which is an excellent specimen of the half- 
timbered mansions of the Middle Ages, was erected by John 
Norres, Esq., about the year 1466. 

The chapel was not quite completed at his death in 1467. 
— (See Will.) 

The fine old heraldic glass which once adorned the windows 
of the great hall, was removed a few years ago to Taplow 
Court, the seat of the present owner. The following account 
of it is from Lyson’s Berks :— 

“ These windows are chiefly ornamented with coats of arms 
having lamberquins, one in each window, on a ground of 
diagonal stripes, containing flowers and mottoes in text-hand 
placed alternately. Among the arms are those of Henry VI., 
with the antelopes his supporters, and of his queen, Margaret 
of Anjou, with her supporters, the antelope and eagle; also 
the arms of Norreys, with beavers for supporters; the Abbey 
of Westminster; Beaufort, Duke of Somerset; Edmund, last 
Earl of March; Henry, Duke of Warwick; De-la-Pole, Duke 
of Sussex; Sir Will. Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand; Sir 
William Laken of Bray, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench; the 
LordWenlock [see Wilf\; Sir Richard Nansan, Capt. of Calais; 
Sir John Pury, Kt. of Chamberhouse Castle, in parish of 
Thatcham [he held large estates in Bray and Cookham at 
this time] ; and of Bulstrode, quartering Shobingdon.”—(See 
Will.) 

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116 OCKWELLS.-WILL OE JOHN NORREYS. 


The chapel was burnt down about the year 1778. In a 
compartment of a door-head remaining in the north wall are 
the Norres arms,—viz., arg. a chev. betw. three ravens’ heads, 
sable; with a beaver for a dexter supporter. 


'SJjc OTtll of 3jofw Norrcys, 

[Extractedfrom the Principal Registry of II. M. Court of 
Probate , Doctors’ Commons .) 

“ In the Name of God. Amen. The iiii th day of Aprill, 
the yere of th’incarnacon of our Lord Jhu Crist M^ccc.lxv. 
And" the yere of ye reigne of King Edward the iiij th aft* 
ye Conquest, the v^ h , I John Norreys, squyer, of the p’issh 
of Bray in ye Counte of Berks, hoole of mynde and in 
my goode memorie beying, make and ordeyne my p 9 sent 
Testament in this maner. 

“ First. I biqueth and comende my soule to allmyghty God 
my Maker and to the blissed Yirgine Marie his Modir and to 
all the compayne of heven. And my body to be buried in 
the Church of Saint Michaell of Bray aforsaid in the North 
He of the said Church. And I woll first and before all 
thinges, after my body buried, that all the dettes yat I owe of 
right fully be satisfied and paied. 

“ It’m. I woll if any p 9 son or p 9 sons can compleyne and 
verrely prove of any wrong to yat p 9 sone doone by me, and 
hath not dieuly be satisfied, therfor, I woll that ye same 
p 9 sone thanne be recompensed and amended of my goodes as 
conscience and trouth wull require in that behalf, aftre ye 
discreeons of myn Executours, 

“It’m. I biqueth to the Modir Church of Salesbury to p r y 
for my soule there vi s viij d . 

“It’m. I biqueth to the High Aulter in the Church of 
Bray aforsaid for my tithes and offerings withdrawen and 
forgeten. And alsoe that ye Yicarie of the same Church 
devoutely pray for my soule c s . 

“It’m. I woll yat a m 1 masses with as many placebo’ 
direges and other obs 9 vnces used in mortuaries be song and 
don for my soule in as hasty time as it may goodely be doone. 
And at ferdest within xxx daies next suying my decease: and 
ye cause why I appoint so long a tyme of xxx daies, is, for I 
would that the moost devoute and vertuous preestes as well 
religious as seculers that can be goten by the discrecon of 
myn Executours as well within the Citee of London as witli- 




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117 


oute, sing and doo the same masses, placebo*, direges, and such 
other obs 9 vnces. And yat ev 9 ych of ye same preests, doyng 
such suffragies and obs 9 vnces, for his labo r have of my goodes 
aft 9 the discrec5n of myn Executours. 

“ It*m. Yat ye Preestes and Clerkes of the said Church of 
Bray doo ev 9 y day from my decesse vnto the day of my 
moneth mynde in ye same church of Bray, for my soule an 
obite—by note, that is to say with placebo, direge, and laudes 
in the Eve and comendacon & masse of Requiem in the 
morowe. And I woll that the Vicarie of the same church, if 
he be p 9 sent and helpyng ev 9 y day at the same obite, and not 
els, haue for his labour xiij s iiij d . And that ev 9 ych of the 
Remennt of the Preestes aforsaid have for his labo r , if he be 
present & helpyng ev 9 y day at the same obite, and not elles, 
x s . And yat ev 9 ych of the phssh clerkes of the saide church 
in semblable wise, if he be present and helpyng, have for his 
labo r v s . 

“ Furthermore , I wull in encresing of more Devocion and 
prayours in this behalf to the honor of all mighty God and 
p 9 fite of my soule, that all the belles of the said Church of 
Bray, as sone as my body be buried and the Divine s 9 viee 
so ther doon, be rong as well by nyght as by day, by the space 
of xxiiij houres continually to gidres. And that ye Ringers 
of the same belles have for their labo r of ringyng aft 9 the 
discrec5n of myn Executours. 

“It’m. I woll yat ye grettest belle of the said belles be 
rong ev 9 y day from my decesse vnto the day of my moneth 
mynde by an hoole houre continualy to gidres after the sunne 
goyng downe. And by a nother hole houre to gidres bifore 
the sonne rising. And that ye Ringers thereof be rewarded 
for their labo r by ev 9 ych of the said houres aft 9 the discrecon 
of my said Executours. 

“ It*m. I biqueth and woll that y 9 be gyven and delt e 9 ry 
day from my decesse unto my moneth mynde aforsaid to the 
moost pou 9 e and nedy people of the said phssh of Bray, being 
in the said Churche or in the same p'issh of my goodes by 
the hands of myn Executours, or their discrete Depute to p r y 
specially for my soule, xxx d . 

“ It*m. I woll yat myn Executours purvey and ordeyne in 
as hasty tyme as they can or nowe after my decesse by th*ad- 
vyse of the p*son of Yatynden, xxx of the moost devout and 
best named Preestes that can be had, as well as of Religious 
as of seculers in Redyng and nigh ther aboute in the Countye 
for to doo an obite, &c., in the P'issh Church of Yattenden. 


118 OCKWELLS.-WILL OE JOHN NORREYS. 

[lie makes the same provision in the parish of Yattenden for 
the benefit of his soul as above rehearsed in Bray.'] 

“ IPm. I woll and biqueth to ye newe makyng and edefying 
of the North He of ye Church of Bray aforesaid, no we callid 
Saint Nicholas Chapell to ye honour of all myghty God, his 
Modre Sainte Marie, Saint Nicholas, and Saint Kateryn, and 
for helthe of my soule by the ov 9 sight and discrecdn of myn 
said Executours or yeir sufficiant Deputees to th’entent yat ye 
Chauntry Preest aforsaid nowe for tyme beying, and his Suc¬ 
cessors shall yer sing in p 9 petuite according to the fundacon 
of the said Chauntery, in the honour and worship of all 
mighty God and Lady Saint Marie, and all the Saints above 
rehersed ; praying for my soule, the soules of my fadir and 
modre, of Alice, Alianore, and Margarete, somtyme my wifes. 
And for the soules of all such p 9 sones as hath geve or biqueth 
in tyme passid, or doth, or biqueth in tyme to come, any 
landes, rentes, or ten’tes, goodes or catallis, vnto the forsaid 
Chauntery c. li. [100/.] 

“ Itm. I biqueth to ye Aulter of ye said lie, to be purveied 
and ordeigned by th’ advyse of y'e forsaid Chauntery preest 
and the discrecdn of myn said Executours for such ornaments 
as is moost necessarye for him to ther to syng for my soule 
and all ye soules aboue rehersed, xx marc. 

“ Itm. I biqueth to the edifying and making of a tombe 
and for a marble stone to be laid y 9 uppon immediately after 
my decesse within the said Chapell over my bodie y r buried, 
xx marc. 

“ Itm. I biqueth to ye Bode-light in ye same Churche 
vi s viij d . 

“ Itm. I biqueth to St. Nicholas light vi s viii d . 

“ Itm. I will and biqueth to ye lights of Saint Stephin 
within the same Church, xx. [sic.] 

“ Itm. I biqueth to ye lights in our Lady Chapell vi s viij d . 

“ Itm. I woll and biqueth to ye biyng of a grete belle to be 
sette and hong in the Steple of Bray aforsaid, for a p 9 petuale 
Bemebraunce and stering people to more Devocon in praying 
.for my soule and all cristien soules, l. ti. [50/.] 

“ Itm. I woll and bequeth c.ii. to th'entent yat my Exe¬ 
cutor shall finde a covenable preest of good and honest con- 
v 9 sacion to sing in ye Chapell above rehersed within the 
Church of Bray aforsaid yerely, immediately aft* my decesse 
for my soule, ye soules of my fadir and modir, of Alice, and 
Alianor, somtyme my wifes, as long as by the discrecon of my 
said Executo r s ye forsaid preest may ther be honestly founde 
with ye said c. ti. 


OCKWELLS.-WILL OF JOHN NORREYS. 119 

“ Itm. I biqueth e to ye church of Ruscombe, to be had in 
Remembrance & specially to be praied for yer, c. s. 

“ Itm. I biqueth to ye making and repairing of ye briggs 
bytwene the said church of Bray and village called the Wyke, 
v. marc. 

“Itm. I biqueth to the makyng and graveling of ye way 
bytwene Acroste gate and ye lane called the Freith lane, xl. s. 

“ Itm. To ye helping and reparing of Maydenhith bridge, xl.s. 

“ Itm. I woll and biqueth to the full bilding and making 
uppe of the Chapell with the Chambres ajoynyng with’n my 
manoir of Okholt in the phssh of Bray aforsaid not yet 
finisshed, xl. li. 

“ Itm. I w T oll and biqueth to Sir Willia Norreys, my son 
and heir, all my stuff of houshold being in my manoir of 
Yatenden and bilongyng to ev 9 y house of office w t in my said 
manoir, as halle, p’lour, chambres, Botery, ketchyn, bake¬ 
house, and all other to ye same manoir p 9 teynyng. 

“ Itm. I biqueth to the said Sir Willia, my sonne, in plate 
to the value of xl. sterling. 

“Itm. I woll that my sonne John Norreys th J elder have 
after my decesse, in money and in plate, c. marc sterling. 

“ Itm. I biqueth to John, my yonger sonne, in money & 
in plate, xl. ti. 

“ Itm. I biqueth to Willia, my yongest sonne, c. marc of 
lawfull money of England. 

“ Itm. I woll & biqueth to Anne, my eldest daughter, c. li. 
sterling. 

“ Itm. I biqueth to Letice, my yongest daughter, in money, 
cc. marc, and in plate to the value of l marcs. 

“Itm. I biqueth to ye mariage of Jene Wales xl. marc 
of money. 

“Itm. I biqueth to Alison Wales, hir suster, in helping to 
hir mariage, x marc. 

“ Itm. I woll & biqueth to John Wales, hir Brother, xl.s. 

“ Itm. I biqueth to Willia Norreys xx marc of sterling. 

“Itm. I biqueth to John Norreys, his Brothir, and myn 
AppTice, x marc. 

“ Itm. I biqueth to Thomas Merbroke xx s. 

“ Itm. I biqueth to John Andrewe xxvi s viii d . 

“ Itm. I biqueth to Davy Aprise xx s . 

“ Itm. I biqueth to John Winche xx 8 . 

“ Itm. To Rauf Coke xx 8 . 

“ Itm. I will & biqueth, to be distribute and goven by the 
discrecon of myn Executours unto my Shepherds and meniall 
s 9 vnts attending my husbandrie, xl. s. 


120 OCKYVELLS.-WILL OF JOHN NORREYS. 

“ Itm. I woll yat all ye Remanent of my s 9 v’nts not above 
rehersed be rewarded after ye discrecon of my said Executours. 
The residue forsoth of all my goodes, moveable & unmoveable, 
where suev 9 they be after my dettes paied, my body buried, 
my funarie expenses maade, and my biquestes conteyned in this 
my p 9 sent testament fulfilled, I biqueth & graunte unto Mar- 
garett, my wife, if she, after my decesse, take noon husband 
but lyve soole. And if so be God fortune hir to be maried after 
my decesse, yen I woll that the said Margarett, my wife, haue 
in the name of a Resonable part to hir right belongyng of all 
maner my goodes and catalles a m 1 marc, and then moreover 
the Residue of all my goodes as hir is above specified, I 
biqueth unto the disposition of myn Executo r s, so that yey the 
same Residue dispose & distribute for my soule, and for the 
soules of Alice & Alianor, late my wifes, and of all trieu 
cristen soules, in werkes of pitee & charitee, as by them may be 
seen moost pleasaunce to God & p 9 fite to my soule, as they 
wold I shold doo for their soules in semblable wise. And of 
yis my p 9 sent Testament I make & ordeyne myn Executours, 
yat is to say, the forsaid Margarete, my wife, William Norreys, 
my Brother, Richard Bulstrode, & Thomas Babham, and I 
biqueth to ev 9 ych of the same Willia Norreys, &c., for yeir 
labo r in this behalf to be had, x marc st 9 ling. Also I make 
& ordeyne of this my said p 9 sent Testament & Will, my Lord 
Wenlok sup 9 vis r to th'assistance and aiding of myn Execu¬ 
tours aforsaid, in p 9 fourming and fulfilling of my said Wille. 
And I biquethe to my said Lorde for his labo r in this behalfe 
to be bad, a gilte cuppe cove 9 d, called ‘ the houswifP In 
wittness wherof, as well to my above said Testament as to this 
my said Wille, I have put my seale. These witnessing. 

“ Probatum fuit suprascript Testa m ^pud Lamehith quarto 
die mensis Julii Anno Dni Mil. cccc mo lxvij mo ac approbate 
&c. &c.”—(From an Office Copy taken for this work.) 

Additional Notice of the Norreys Family from the Charter Rolls . 

Anno 52 Hen. III. (1268). “Alicia de Norice” [received 

a grant of \— 

“ W yde-strod [ ? Stroud] placea vacua inter purprestuF 
Regis et forestam deWyndesore contin' 42 acF, &c. [and] 
Gerstoneshull, ibm.” 

Note. — Garstonsdych in Strode Tithing is named in the 
B. C. R. of 1433. 



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“ Formerly called f John of Bray’s Place/ and after that 
Hevynden’s.”— Cal . Rot. Pat. } anno 1446.) 

Anno 1296 “ Joh’es de Bray, pro sect a curb relax’. a’ E’o 
Sci Mich’is, anno scdo usque ad idm’. fin’, 
prox’. seq’. xii d .” He died in 1333, when 
Walter de Bray, and 

Roger de Bray, were appointed his executors.— 

(B. C. R.) 

In 1324 William de Bray was invested by Henry de Chil- 
balton, Yicar of Bray, with full power to treat 
with the Vicar of Cookham and the inhabitants 
of Maidenhead, respecting their right to the 
celebration of divine service in the newly erected 
chapel at M.— [Gorham.) 

1334 Constance de Bray. 

1335 Matilda de B. paid 3 d for the pasturage of an ox 

in the “ Key.” 

1336 Walter de B. died seised of lands formerly held 

by John Hened. 

1337 Isabel de B. 

,, Walter de B., and the other executors of Richard 
le Noreys, sued for pasturage to val. of 28 s by 
Walter le Hurt. 

HYVYNDENE OR HYNDEN FAMILY. 

1340 William de Hyvendon.—(. B . C. R.) 

„ Thomas Gernon, “ Chaplain/’ paid 12 d for suit of 
court for Thomas Hyvynden. 

1373 Thom. Hyv. died, having app. the said T. Gernon 
his executor.—(. B . C. R .) 

,, John Taylor, Tithingman of “ Olyport,” fined for 
concealing the improper state of a certain water 
course in Prattes-lane, belonging to the said 
Tho. Gernon. 

1375 Margaret Hyvendon. 

1376 Eleanor Hyvynden pleaded her “Esson” to a 

citation. 

1422 “ Ad hanc cur* venit Almaricus Mathany civis & 
pannar’ London & fiecit dno ffidelitatem pro illis 
terris & ten* que nup fuerunt Rob’ti Medecroft, & 
quondam Johis Hynden inBraye; et que terras 


122 


MANOR OF HYNDEN. 


& ten* clamat tenere virtute Alicie uxoris sue, filie 
& hered p 9 dicti Johis Hynden,** &c., fine 8 d . 

In 1424 (24 April.) (t Ad ist* Cur’. ven*. Joh*es Walle Cle- 
ricus, et fecit ffidelit*. pro ill*. terris & ten*. que 
fuer*. Almaric* Mathany & Alicie ux*. eius, fil*. 
Joh*is Hynden, fil*. et hered 5 . Elen Hynden.**— 
(B. C. R.) 

(Corresponding entries occur in the Cool'ham C. R. 
as this manor extended into the Manor of CooJcham.) 

1446 “Joh*es Bray pro corpore regis armiger, tenet in 
feodo unum tenement*, quondam vocat ‘ John of 
Bray's Place/ et postea ( Hevyndens,* cum di- 
versiis terris continent &c., de assart* forestse de 
Windsor, una cum cert*, reddit* et servic* pro 
redditu sex denariorum p annum, pro omni ser- 
vitio et demand.**— (Cal. Rot. Pat.) 

1455 “ Six individuals were deputed to settle & place 
metes & bounds between the lands of the Dean 
& Canons of Windsor, & the lands of John Norreys 
called f Moris,* and f Hyndens,* and between 
other lands belonging to the said f manors* of 
‘ Moris* & f Hyndens* lying adjacent.**—( B. C. R.) 

1495 “ Homag* pres* q*d accidit D’ne Regine per mortem 
Margarete Ducisse Norff* nuper ux* Joh*is Noreys, 
pro ten*to vocat f Hyndens*, pro relevio ad Festum 
Sci Mich*is ultimum p 9 titu*, xxviii s vi d .** 

Sir William “ Noreys,** son of the said John 
N., Esq., succeeded to this estate. 

The estate and manor of Hendons was purchased of the 
Norres family about the year 1609, by Sir Thomas Bodley, 
who bequeathed it in 1612 to the University of Oxford for 
the support of the public library which he had founded. The 
estate was then calculated to yield, “ at a moderate improve¬ 
ment, fourscore eleven pounds, ten shillings.**— (Sir T. B.’s 
Letter to the University.) 

“ Budd*s Meadows,** in Holyport, still belong to the Uni¬ 
versity of Oxford.— (See Holyport and Stroud.) 

The manor house was afterwards in the families of Fulham 
and Winder. Samuel Winder resided here in 1666, and it 
remained in this family until the middle of the next century. 
— (Ch. Registers .) 

Hendons was purchased in 1762 by Sir Thomas Reeve, a dis¬ 
tinguished herald and antiquary, the son and heir of the learned 


MANOR OF MOORS. 


123 


Sir Tho. Reeve, Lord Chief Justice of the Com. Pleas, who 
resided at Windsor, and died in 1736. His son, Sir Thom, 
of Hendons, died in 1777, and was buried in "Windsor 
Church. It was afterwards the property of the Rev. Dr. 
Trenchard in right of his wife, Anna Maria, eldest daughter 
and co-heiress of Sir Tho. Reeve. 

The manor house, which was taken down in 1846, was 
originally surrounded by a moat, a considerable portion of 
which was filled in forty years ago. The chapel contained a 
few memorials of the Molesworth family, some of which are 
now in the Hall of Geys house. At the west end of the 
chapel was a fine old group of chimney-shafts, eight in number, 
crowned by a richly-moulded head of brickwork, said to have 
been erected in 1570. 

“ Hindenys-hacii,” mentioned in 1459, was the name of 
an old gate between Hendons and Philiberts, removed at the 
enclosure in 1817. 

Wlje JWanor of JUortg, or JUoorg. 

This manor was originally held by a family surnamed 
“ Atte-More,” i.e., at (the) Moor; hence “More,” or “Moor” 
is the local name. 

1288 John atte More, on the inquest concerning Bray Mill; 
one of the principal tenants. 1296, 1305. 

1292 Nicholas atte M. pleaded his “ Essoin ” to a citation. 
(Dead before 1335.) 

1333 John, son of Nicholas atte M. 1334-5. 1340-59. 

1335 “Isolda que fuit ux’. Nichi de la More.” 

1333 William atte M. 

1358 John atte M. held lands in Cookham. — (C. C.R.) 

„ Thomas atte M., tenant of Cookham Manor. 1395. 

— (C. C. R) 

1369 John atte M. (see above) died seised of 1 hide of 

land, when Nicholas his son and heir did fealty. 
Relief, 5 s . Heriot, a horse valued at 13 s l d . Nich. 
held land at “ Mulcroft ” in 1370. Living 1376. 

1370 “Cecil que fuit ux’. Johis atte More,” held land at 

“ Hol-lane” and “ Grademere.” 

1395 William atte M. of Cookham, paid 4 d . for keeping 
his pigs in the King’s Meadows.— (C. CL R) 

1422 Joan atte M., responsible for a road called “ Hollowe- 
lane;” suitor’s fine, 8 d . Living 1433. 


124 


MANOR OF IVES. 


1455 William Barnard, tithingman of Bray wick, presented 
that the fences between the land called “ Moris,” 
and the road leading from Bray wick to Maidenhead 
ought to be repaired by Thom. Bedulle. 

„ Richard More, suitor’s fine, 12 d . “Armig’” 1487. 
Living 1498.— ( B. C.R .) 

1540 Thomas More, tenant. 

An ancient pedigree of this family is given in the Heralds’ 
Visitations, Karl. MS., No. 1532, fol. 141. Brit. Mus. 

1455 Six individuals were appointed to place metes and 
bounds between the lands of John Norris, called 
“ Moris,” and the lands of the Dean and Canons 
of Windsor.— [B. C. R.) 

1495 Sir Will. Norres succeeded to this estate on the death 
of Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk. Relief, xxx s iij d . 
Henry Staverton, of Bray (living 1495), married 
Dionysia Brown of Egham, relict of ... . Lenton, 
or Fenton, of “Moore’s,” in Bray.— [Karl. MS.) 

In the year 1597, Thomas Lawrence, of Bray, “in consider¬ 
ation of the summe of one thousand powndes” sold unto 
William Goddard “all that mannour, ffarme, andmancion place 
called Moores.”—(A. C.R., 1604.) 

John Loggins, of Stroud, held the manor of Moores at his 
death in 1606.— (B. C. R.) 

In 1616, Thomas Lawrence succeeded to the estate called 
“ Mores,” on the death of Thomas Lawrence, his father. In 
1663, Nicholas Brice of Maidenhead sold the estate and manor 
of Moores to Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of “ Eaton,” for the sum 
of £1750.—(A. C. R.) 

In 1673, the Rev.Goade, D.D., died reputed owner 

of Moores.—( B. C. R.) 

In 1738, this estate was purchased by the Proctor family, 
who sold it in 1855 to J. J. Coney, Esq., of Bray wick Grove, 
the present owner. 


iUmtor of Ebcs. 

1296 John Ive was one of the chief tenants of the manor; 
suitor’s fine, 12 d . The following year he was sum¬ 
moned to pay for fishing with a trammel in the 
Thames. 

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de Mora (atte More) in exchange for another acre-; 
but as the tenants were not able to make a final ex¬ 
change of lands held in fee, seisin of the said acre 
was delivered to John de Mora. ' 

1827 Thomas Ive, suitor’s fine, 12 d . Thomas Ive, son of 
John Ive of Haselbere and Idonia his wife, died in 
1334, leaving no issue, by his wife Isabel, upon 
which 

1334-5 “ Stephen de Abyndon, citizen of London, gave to 
the lord 40 d for licence to agree [ f concordare ’] 
with John Ive of Haselbei^ and Dionysia his wife, 
for their lands, &c., in Bray.” 

1376 “ Elianora Brid pro ten’, voc’. f I ves-Tenement.’ ” — 
(j B. C. R.) (Anno 1373. “ Alianora que fuit uxor 
Joh’is Brid, executrix testamenti dicti Joh’is.”— 

b. c. r.) 

1373 “To this court came Thomas Gernon, Yicar of Cook- 
ham, Thomas Puttenham, Yicar of Bustlesham, 
John Hampslep, Yicar of Hurlee, and John 
Wynchecombe, chaplain, and did fealty for certain 
lands, &c., which of our lord the King they claimed 
to hold [ f clamant tenere ’,] and which formerly 
belonged to John Brid of Maydenhuthe.” — 
(B. C. R.) 

1444 “ (22 Hen: YI.) Ad hanc cur’ venit dns Thomas 
Sewy unus Canonicor’ domus et eccl’ie de Bus- 
tlesh a m noie diii. Joins P’oris eur’ Domus ac 
eiusdem loci conventus et cognovit tenere de dno 
rege q°dd a m tentu’. vocatu Yvyes [Ives] cu oib 3 et 
singulis suis p’tm. redd’ inde s 9 vis’ debita et de 
antiquo jure consueta. Et fecit inde fidelitate. 
Et admiss’ est inde tenes.”— (B. C. R.) 

[The monks of Bisham held land in Bray at 
an early period. “Anno 1272, Michael Euse 
holds half a virgate of land in Bray of the Tem¬ 
plars of Bisham, which was accustomed to be 
held of the King,” &c.— ( Hund. Rolls.) In 1340, 
Roger de Colingborne was appointed Bailiff to 
the Prior of Bisham, and, at the same time, 
Woodward of “ Altwode.”—( B . C. i?.)] 

The manor of Ives was confirmed to ' the monastery of 
Bisham by Henry YIII. in 1537, in his Charter of New 
Foundation.— {Rat. 29 Hen. VIII.) 


126 


FIEIELD HOUSE. 


After the final dissolution of that religious house, it was 
granted to Anne of Cleves, probably as parcel of the manor 
of Bray. 

According to Ashmole (Antiq. vol. iii. p. 30, 1719), the 
estate comprised:— 

1 The manor house and farm, formerly granted to 

Richard Noke by letters-patent, at the yearly rent 
of 7 1 13 s 4 d . [The manor produced this sum in 
1537.] 

2 A pasture called “ Lanermore” [? Lavermore, B. C. R . } ] 

at the east end of the town of “ Maidenheth” in par. 
of Cookham, containing by estimation 6 ac., lying 
between Cookham Ray on the N., and a marsh 
called Forgmore on the S. 

3 One acre in “ Maydenhed-field,” in a place called 

“ Brokevere.” Annual rent, 6 s 8 d . 

4 The whole of a fishery in the Thames, and an island 

called the “ Eighth” in the same; which fishery ex¬ 
tends 20 feet from the East part of “ Maidenheth- 
bridge” unto a certain place called “ Riddel-pool.” 
Annual rent, 8 s . 

5 A farm tenement and four closes lying at Boynliill, 

in par. of Bray, formerly granted to Roger Amyce 
by letters-patent. 

In 1610, the manor of Ives was granted to George Salter 
and John Williams, from whom it was purchased by Sir 
William Garway in 1617, and sold by his family, in 1649, 
to John Whitfield, Esq. From the family of Whitfield it 
passed by marriage to the family of Powney, both making 
the house at Ives Place their residence. From the Powneys 
the property came to persons of the name of Wilson, who 
afterwards sold it to the Pococks, from whom it was pur¬ 
chased by William Stephens, Esq., in whose family it now 
remains. 


dPtficttl §Hottgc, 

A reputed manor, or manor farm, was anciently the pro¬ 
perty and residence of a branch of the Norris family of 
Ockwells, and probably inherited by them from the Fowlers. 

John Fowler, of Fifield, who died in 1479, married Agnes, 
daughter of William Norris, of Winkfield (brother of John 
Norres, of Ockwells, who died in 1467), by whom he had 



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Alice Fowler, sole heiress, who married Edmund Norres, 
Esq., descended from Sir John Norres, of Speke and Ock- 
wells, 1361. They had issue one son, 

John Norres, of Fifield, living 1576, who, by Mary, 2nd 
daughter and co-heiress of Henry Staverton, of Bray, had 
issue, 

William Norres, of “ Fifield Howse,” “ Keeper of Foly- 
John Park,” &c. (see Monuments ), who married Mary, daughter 
of Sir Adrian Fortescue, by whom he had 

Sir John Norres, Knight, of Fifield; knighted at Beading 
by Q. Elizabeth in 1601; died 1612, seised of “ Bullocks” in 
East Oakley; “Palmeres,” “Browms,” and “ Coters” in Fi¬ 
field ; a mess, in Stroud called “ Pratts” and “ Barretts,” 
and a tenement called “ Jenkyn Ewsts.”—(2?. C. R.) 

Fifield house was afterwards in the family of Winch, from 
whom it descended to 'the Micklems, in whom it is now 
vested. 

A picturesque cottage, the only remaining portion of the 
ancient house, has a handsome chimney bearing the initials 
“ B. W.” (Bobert Winch), with the date “ 1646.” 

02too&foar&% alias Uemfici’s, tit ©akleg. 

1288 Walter Wodeward, of Oakley. 

1333 Matilda le Wodeward, and 

Alice le Wodeward, of Water Oakley, tithing. 

1334 William le W. The same year Bobert Bulloh 

pleaded his “ Essoin/' by 

John le W. (suitors fine in 1350 -- 8 d .) 

1350 “ Thomas le Wodeward, Decenarius.” 

1422 Thomas Martyn, died seized of a mess, and half a 
virgate formerly held by 
Simon Wodeward. 

1455 John Martyn, “ Carpint';” suitors fine, 4 d . 

1509 Thomas Martyn died tenant of “Wodwards,” and 
was succeeded by John M., his son. 

1610 Arthur Page, of Down Place, died, seised of “ K.” 
alias “ Woodwards.” 

In 1627 Kembers, alias Woodwards, “in the tenure of 
Thomas Tod, Gent/’ (ann. rent £11), was leased 
by John Page, Esq., to Bich d and Henry Powney, 
Esqrs., of Bray, for 21 years. 

Sir Will. Paule, by will, dated 14th April, 1684, left an 
mnual rent charge of £5 on this estate, “ lately purchased of 




128 


OAKLEY COURT.-NEW LODGE. 


Thomas Page, Gent.,” to be paid to the minister and school¬ 
master of Bray, for the benefit of such poor of the parish who 
should be members of the Church of England. 

The above rent charge is yearly received by the vicar 
from Robert Harvey, Esq., of Langley Park, the present 
owner of this estate. 

(See Kember’Sj near Bray wide) 

©atslcg Court. 

This exquisite Gothic mansion, the seat of Richard Plall Say, 
Esq., was erected in 1859 on the ground formerly called 
“ Queen's,” or “ Water Oakley Wharf,” mentioned in the 
account of “ Down Place.” 

[Anno 1305, “Rob. Glodeman, collector* toluet*. nav\ ap d 
Ocle.”— (B. C. R.) 

In 1333, Reginald Belen, Tithingman of Little, or Water 
Oakley, and collector of the boat tolls there, paid the sum of 
8 s for 16 boats which had passed in the course of the year. 

“1373, Joh*es Cur dat dno £ wharvag* ap d Okie p ann* 
iiij s ”-(R. a R.)] 

The building is an admirable specimen of the adaptation of 
the ancient baronial style to the requirements of the nineteenth 
century. The hall is spacious, and contains a handsome stair¬ 
case of mediaeval design. The furniture throughout is of oak, 
and harmonizes with the style of the building. In a window 
in the library are the arms of Saye, Morley, &c., in ancient 
stained glass. The elegance of this mansion, combined with 
the natural beauties of its situation, renders it one of the most 
delightful residences in the neighbourhood. 


i&efo Uottge. 

This magnificent mansion, the seat of his Excellency S. 
Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, was erected in 1858-9 on 
the site of a house originally designated “ Hounds Lodge,** 
for some time the residence of Lord Raleigh. The house, 
which is approached through an avenue of luxuriant foliage, is 
of the early Tudor style. The south front is exceedingly rich 
in detail, and presents a beautiful and irregular outline. The 3 
various gables, with a magnificent bay of two stories, pierced * 
with enriched windows, and surmounted by an elegant finial, 
impart a massive and original grandeur seldom seen in any 


bishop’s. 


129 


modern structure. From its proximity to the “ Forest,” the 
fine old trees by which it is surrounded, and the park-like 
aspect of the grounds, it forms an exquisite model of an 
English mansion of the sixteenth century.— (See Ballad of 
King and Tinker.) 


asteJNjp’g— 

The name of the farmstead at East Oakley, now occupied 
by Mr. Winder, but anciently the residence of the Bishop 
family. 

1288 Michael Bisshop, and Edith Busshoppe.— {B. C. B.) 
1335 Geofery le Byshopp, of Oakley, died, leaving his son, 
Michael B., his heir. 

1374 John B. 

1424 Thomas B., suitor’s fine, 4 d . In 1433, Aletaster of 
Oakley. 

1444 Boger B., suit, fine 4 d . In 1449, appointed Collector 
for his lands called “ Bishopes.” “ Esson” 1487. 
1498-1504 Robert B., Tithingman of East Oakley. Died 
before 1527. 

1532 John B., chosen collector for his lands called 
“ Bysshopps,” by the yearly payment of 10 s 5 d . 
1535 Christina Castilman, relict of Robert B. 

1540 John B., son of Christina and Rob. B. 

1599 Robert B., of Egham, and Elizabeth his wife, sold 
Gadbridge and Hendon’s Meads, &c., &c., to 
William Goddard, Esq., for 410^. 

1602 George B., died in 1649, leaving his son Robert, his 
heir.—( B. C. R.) 

1620 John B., Constable of Bray.— ( Ch. W. Book.) 

1654, April 24. Ann, da. of Robert B., marr d to Symon 
Winch.— {Ch. R.) 

1655 Rob 11 son of Rob 1 B. buried.— {Ch. R.) 

1667 George B., suitor’s fine, 3 s . In 1669, purchased 

Bullock’s Hatch of John Powney. 

1668 Elizabeth B., dau. of John Perryman, inherited the 

lands of her brother Thom. P. at his death. 

Sarah B., of Oakley Green, marr. to Thom. Adams. 

—{Ch. R.) 

1673 George B., “Gent.,” of “Bishopps,” sold Bullock’s 
H. to John Winder, Nov r 20 th . 

1707 Elizabeth B. marr. to John Skage.— {Ch. R.) 

K 


130 


bullock’s HATCH.-DOWN PLACE. 


asullocfe’s 

This estate derives its name from its ancient owners, the 
Bullock family, who resided here at an early period. 

1292 Robert B.— (. B . C. R.) 

1296 Edmund B. 

1333 Matilda B., of Oakley Tithing, and Elena B. 

1334 Robert B., suitor, of Oakley. 

1375 “ Johannes Clerk ffirmarius ap d Bullokes." 

„ About this time, Robert Bullok married Margery, 
dau. of Sir John Eoxle, of Eoxleys, by whom he 
had issue, Margaret B. (living a widow 8 th 
Hen. VI., 1429-30), the wife of John Hartington. 
—(Topographer and Genealogist.) 

1499 Thomas B. In 1512, he held lands in Holyport, 
called Wapelonds. — (B. C. R.) 

The heiress of the Bullock family brought this estate to the 
Efoughleres, or Fowlers, temp. Edw d III., who appear to have 
held it through the 15 th century.— (B. C. JR.) 

Richard Powney resided here in 1600. 

In 1612, Sir John Norreis died, seised of this estate. 

In 1669, John Powney sold Bullocks to George Bisshop, of 
East Oakley, who, in 1673, alienated it to John Winder, with 
the land called “ Longcroft," and “ Ashen Beane-croft." 
— (B. C. R.) 

“ 1775, June 25, M rs Elizabeth Winder, widow, of Bullock's 
Hatch, buried.— (B. Ch. Reg.) 

It was subsequently the property of Townley Ward, who 
resided at the i( Willows," another mansion in the vicinity, 
and afterwards of Col. Haythorpe, from whom it was pur¬ 
chased by the Rev. C. Nash, who sold it not many years ago 
to Philip Palmer, Esq., the present owner. This handsome 
villa is now the residence of Henry Darvill, Esq. 


Uofott Dfacc, 

Situate on the Downs at Water Oakley. Compare Wood¬ 
man Down (below the Great Elm), Dun- mead. Numerous 
Roman antiquities have been found in the grounds of Down 
Place, including coins of the reigns of Caes. Vespasian (a 
silver coin struck at the subjugation of Judea, now in the pos¬ 
session of Mr. W. H. Wood well), Julianus, Constantins, 


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DOWN PLACE. 


131 


Constans, Constantinus, Valens, Gallienus, Valentinian, and 
Arcadius. Some years ago human remains and the founda¬ 
tions of ancient buildings were discovered in the gardens to 
the west of the house. In an old survey of this estate, dated 
1747, a small meadow, about one hundred and forty yards to 
the west of the orchard, is named “ AitBOUii-Bridge,” and 
between this meadow and the Thames was Arbour-lane, 
leading from Down Place to Bray. The name Arbour, or 
Cold- Harbour, is invariably found in the vicinity of Roman 
stations. Compare this name with “ Ere-burgh-feld” (the 
field of the ancient, ox former burgli, or toivn), “apud Ogle/' 
mentioned in the B. C. R. of 1336. The names are unques¬ 
tionably identical. 

In 1518, Down Place was the property of Sir Robert Jones, 
for in that year Richard Weston, Seneschal, granted to “ Sir 
Robert Jonys a piece of land called f Quenes-warfe/ lying 
between a messuage belonging to the aforesaid Robert, called 
‘ Down Place/ on the west, and his land, called f Bawdwyne 
Botelers/ on the east.” Sir R. J. died in 1532, seised of 
“ Sherys,” “ Kembers,” and “ Bawdwyns,” formerly in the 
tenure of John Garmond; certain lands called Thomas 
Thomas’s; and Down Place; the whole of which descended 
to David Morgan his heir, and Katharine his widow. 

In 1610, Arthur Page died seised of Down Place, &c., 
leaving his brother Randolph P. his heir. 

In 1627, John Page of Down P., was possessed of 

“ Saddockes” (then in the tenure of Anthony Blagrave). 

Winckles (purchased of Walter Harward, Gent.). 

Woodwards, alias Kembers (in the tenure of Thom. Tod, 
Esq.). 

Sheeres (with a tenement newly-erected thereon, lying 
between Oakley Green and Fifield field, in the occupa¬ 
tion of Henry Powney and Rich. Holderness). 

Down Place (leased in 1627 to Rich, and Henry 
Powney). 

Hatch Close (20a.). 

Hutchins, 40a. (See Money Bow Green.) 

Cooteres, 8a. (In 1453 Alice Palmer died seised of 
Coters. It was afterwards in the Fowlers. In 1612 
Sir John Norres died seised of C.)—( B . C. R .) 

Oakley Wharf (James Ewst, tenant). 

In 1720, Down Place, &c., was sold to Jacob Tonson, Jun., 
Citizen and Stationer of London, by Elizabeth, relict of An- 

k 2 



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ALPHEy’s EARM.-BOYN HILL. 


thony Everndon, of Westham, Co. Essex, and formerly the wife 
of John Page, of Isleworth, for the sum of 4700/.—( B . C. R.) 

Tonson, afterwards M.P. for Windsor, built an anfe-cliamber 
in this house, for the reception of the portraits of the Kit-Cat 
Club, composed of the principal Whig nobility in the reign of 
Queen Anne, to which club he was secretary. “The pictures 
came from Barn-Elms, in Surrey, and at his death, in 1767, 
came into the possession of his brother Richard; at whose 
demise, in 1772, they passed into the hands of Mr. Baker, of 
Hartingfordbury, Herts.”— {Beaut. Berks.) 

Down P. was afterwards successively the property of the 
Duke of Argyle, Mr. Barker Church, and John Huddlestone, 
Esq., from whom it was purchased, in 1807, by Henry Har¬ 
ford, Esq., at whose death, in 1834, it descended to his son, 
the late Captain H., in whose family it still remains. 

SUpDOj’s dfarm (©afcltg). 

A suithold, holden in ancient demesne of the Manor of 
Bray, subject to yearly quit-rents amounting to 13.?. 2 d. A 
relief of 6s. Id. on alienation, and a beast heriot on death. 
Area 32a. Or. 39p. 

This estate, the property of the late Henry Walter, Esq., 
was sold on Friday, 10th May, 1850, pursuant to a decree of 
the High Court of Chancery, dated 21st July, 1849, and 
realized 1600/. 

1334 “ Petrus filius Willi Aleey” (of Oakley). 

1369 Wili/us Aleey ffin* pro sect* CuF xii d , and (1372). 

1376 Robert, and William Alphey summoned to the court 
at Bray. 

1422 Joh’es Aleey ffin J pro sect* iiij d , and 1432. 

1432 Robert Ffouler paid 6 d to the lord, for permission to 
obtain 6 suitors to define the bounds between his 
lands, and the estates of John Aleey. 

1450 Wilbus Trew £ terP voF Ale ays, iiij d . 

1461 William Trew did fealty for the lands of John Aleeys 
in East Oakley. 

Mom mu 

“ Boyn Hill” is mentioned in the survey of the Manor of 
Ives, circa 1550. 

“ Boynton juxta Altewode” occurs in a deed dated 1496: 


BOYN HILL. 133 

“ Boyn- don” is unquestionably the original name of this 
locality, dun or don , signifying a down or “ hill.” 

1333 Henry de Boyndon, Tithingman (“elargavit [1334] 
q’dd’ fossat’ ap d le Eldeloke”).—( B . C . R.) 

1368 Thomas B. A principal suitor, 12 d . 

1369 John B., Chaplain, living 1372, suitor’s fine, 12 d . 

In 1496, Robert Winch, of Bray, conveyed to Thomas 
Bramylton, and Henry Arnold and Agnes his wife, a curti- 
lege and a croft lying at Boyndon near Allwode, called “ Lyn- 
hames,” in the parish of Bray, with an acre of land lying in a 
field called “ Viveacres,” between the King’s land called 
“ Hareschet,” on the east, and the land of John Terry on the 
west; which lands were incident to a yearly rent-charge of 
28^.—viz., 14 d. yearly to the poor of Bray to pray for the 
soul of William Brown, the original owner of the said lands, 
and 14^. to the wardens of the bridges lying between Bray 
and Bray wyke “ ad reparacionem et sustentacionem” of the 
same. 

Witnesses: Charles Rypon (of Eoxleys), Robh Ffowler, and 
Henry Staverton, “ Gentilmen,” Will. Smyth, 
Will. Fferrour, “ et multis aliis.” 

Dated at Bray, 1st March, 11th Henry VII. 

Owing to the rapid increase of population in this locality 
during the last half century, this remote portion of the parish 
has been recently formed into an ecclesiastical district, and a 
magnificent church erected—chiefly by the munificence of 
Miss Hulme, daughter of the late Rev. William Hulme, of 
Reading. The foundation-stone of this structure was laid by 
the Bishop of Oxford, October 23rd, 1855, and the building 
was consecrated, 2nd December, 1857. 

“ The church consists of a nave of four bays, with clerestory, 
north and south aisles with lean-to roofs, and a chancel, with organ 
chamber and vestry on the south side. In the spandrels of the 
arches, which are constructed of red and black brick and Bath 
stone arranged alternately, are medallions in stone of the stations 
in the passion of Christ:—His bearing the Cross—His falling 
under its weight—His meeting with his Mother Mary,&c. The 
roofs are of stained deal, except that over the sanctuary, which 
is of oak; and a pleasing polychrome has been introduced be¬ 
tween the rafters of the nave. Round the pulpit, which is of 
stone, are six arcades of a Second Pointed character—the style of 
the church itself: the lower portion is ornamented with inlaid 
marbles of various colours, and in the upper are sculptured 


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alternately, the rose, the lily, and the passion-flower. The 
altar is the most prominent object in the church, and can be 
seen from every part of it. The reredos consists of a triple 
arcade with crocketted pinnacles. The central, which is the 
largest, is charged with a bold cross in relief, with the 
evangelistic symbols at the arms, on a ground of alabaster 
diapered with coloured marbles. On either side of the altar 
is an effective diaper of black enamel let into stone, with co¬ 
loured marbles, effectively arranged. There are three sedilia 
on the south side; the arcades of which are supported by 
pillars of polished marble. There is a well-placed credence in 
the north wall, the hood-moulding of which terminates in a 
well-carved Agnus Dei and The Pelican in her Piety . The 
window over the altar is of five lights, the central being the 
largest, and the head is filled with beautiful geometrical tracery. 
In the centre is a crucifix in a Vesica Piscis, with St. John and 
the Virgin on either side, and the Magdalene at the foot. In 
the side lights are—1. The Washing of the Disciples* Feet. 
2. The Agony in the Garden. 3. Institution of the Blessed 
Sacrament. 4. The Betrayal. 5. Jesus before Pilate. 6. Way 
of Sorrows. 7. Taking down from the Cross; and 8. The 
Burial. The east and west windows were executed by Hard¬ 
man : the others by Weales. 

“ On the whole, there are few churches so original in cha¬ 
racter, so effective in design, and so perfect in every detail, 
as All Saints, Boyn Hill.**—(From the Illustrated News of the 
World) 

On the north side of the church is the churchyard, and on 
the south the parsonage and schools, which, with the church, 
form three sides of a quadrangle, in the centre of which is a 
Cross Calvary. The Bev. William Grcsley, the Incumbent, 
is the author of the well-known tales, The Siege of Lichfield , 
Forest of Arden, Bernard Leslie , besides several theological 
and controversial works. 

Boyn Hill Farm was anciently parcel of the Manor of 
Ives, in the tenure of the monks of Bisham. In 1520, “ John 
Grove held the farm of the Prior and Convent of Bustlesham 
in Maydenhith.**— (B. C. R) 

“ Kingsgrove,** a part of this farm, is mentioned in the 
B. C . R . at an early period. 

1292 “ Kynngesgrove.** 

1333 “ Summa Agistiament* in le Kyngesgr* v s .** 

1370 Ralph Hakker did fealty for an acre of land abutting 


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135 

on “ Kynggesgrof,” belonging to the king, which he formerly- 
held of John de Foxle, at 6 d . per ann. 

In 1599, William Day “ Generosus” held arable land in the 
neighbourhood of Boyn Hill. 

JWatfeenlicatf* 

Leland, in attempting to identify Reading with the Roman 
“ Pontes,” states that Maidenhead was originally denomi¬ 
nated “Alaunodunum.”— ( Vide “ Cygnea Cantio”) As the same 
author, in his account of Maidenhead, also observes that it 
was “of old tyme cawllid Sowth Elington,” it must be 
inferred that his “ Alaunodunum,” from its classical form, was 
designed for the Roman name of this town. From what 
source Leland derived his information, whether from local 
antiquities or MSS., cannot perhaps now be ascertained; but 
this much is certain, “ Alaunodunum 33 does not occur in any of 
the more accessible authorities on the Roman Period . There is, 
however, a striking analogy between Alaunodun and Elinton 
(the earlier form was Elindene, which comes closer to Leland's 
name), and this etymological evidence should not be over¬ 
looked. 

Again, the town is situated on a Roman road, traces of 
which are visible between Braywick and Cockmarsh in Cook- 
ham (see Appendix); and this, whether “Alaunodunum” 
existed or not during the Roman period, greatly tends to 
strengthen the credit due to Leland’s assertion. 

The town is denominated Elinton for the last time in the 
B. C. R. in 1296. “Witts atte Haue dat dno rege vj d ut 
forum de Elinton melius ordneF scdm dispohem battio. IV. 
ph eh battis, &c.” 

Elynden Family, from the Bray and Coohham C. Rolls. 

1333 “ Joh’es de Elynden.” (B.) 

„ “ Simon de Elyndene dat dno de fine vj d £ ass* 

panis.” Living 1338. (B.) 

1338 “JoiPna de Elynedene” [of Maidenhead.] (B.) 

[A few years later, the distinctive “ d” became 
sharpened into “ t.”] 

1358 Henry de Elyngton, of Cookham par. paid 3 d for 
pasturage. (C.) 

1392 William de Elyngton held a pasture in Cookham 
called Whitbrok. (C.) 

1454 “ JoiPesElenton est cois hospes et vendit victualia.” 
(B.) [Of Maidenhead.] 


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MAIDENHEAD. 


The name “ Maydenhuth” was probably derived from the 
formation of a new (maiden) hythe or wharf on the Thames 
about the middle of the thirteenth century.—(See Lyson and 
Gorliam.) 

“Maydenhuth,” from 1288 to 1395.— (B. C. R.) 

“Maydenheith,” in 1298.— {Cal. Rot. Pat.) 

“ Maydenhith,” from 1432 to 1500.—(. B. C. R.) 

“ Maydenhead,” from 1500 downwards. 

The etymology proposed by Leland is singularly at variance 
with the ancient orthography, and must have originated, as 
Mr. Gorham supposes, “ in a foolish play upon the name which 
had previously obtained currency.” 

“ Maindenhevid, in Barkshire, of old tyme cawllid Sowth 
Elington : it toke the name of Maidenhead of a hedde that 
they said was one of the xj thowsand virgines to the which, 
offering there was made in a chapell.”— [Leland.) 

Leland’s visit to Maidenhead, in 1538, is thus quaintly 
described in his Itinerary :— 

“ A ii. or iii. miles beyond the passage over Burne, I cam 
to Maidenhed bridge of tymbre upon the Tamise. 

“ A little above the bridge, ripa citeriori Tamesis, I saw a 
cliffy ground as hanging over the Tamise, and sum busschis 
groinge on it. I conjectid that ther had beene sum site of an 
auncient building. 

“ There is a grete warfeage of tymbre and fierwood on the 
west ende of the bridge; and this wood cummith out of 
Barkshir and the great woddis of the forest of Windelsore 
and the greate frithe. 

(Heere mark that as much grounde as lyith bytwixt the 
arme of Colne that goith thoroug Colebroke toun and 
the bridge of Maidenhed is yn Bukkinghamshir. Beyond 
is Barkeshir.) 

“ The toun of Maidenhed stondith a praty distance from 
the Tamise side, and is meately welle buildid. The south side 
of the toune is in the Paroche of Bray. 

“The north side is yn the Paroch of Cokeham. 

“ From Maidenhedde toun a ii. miles by a narrow wooddy 
way to the Frithe. And so thorough the Frithe iii. miles and 
more. And then to Twyford, a praty tounlet, a ii. miles.”— 
( Itinerary , vol. ii. pp. 28-9, edit. 1769 ; and p. 2, edit. 1744.) 


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137 


an account of tfie ODfiapcX ODfmmxtrg an* Cutto of 
jWattojjcah. 

By the Rey. G. C. Gorham, B.D. 

{From the t( Collectanea Topographica et Genealogical 
Vol. VI. Published by J. B. Nichols and Son.) 

The Chapel has been rebuilt twice, at least. The original 
edifice, erected by the family of Hosebund about 1270, was 
probably the same which was taken down and rebuilt in 1724. 
It stood in the roadway of the main street, on the north side. 
In consequence of its smallness, and also of the obstruction it 
occasioned to the Great Western Road, it was again taken 
down and rebuilt in the Gothic style, by Act of Parliament 
(5 Geo. IV., c. 40), in 1824-6. It is 70 feet long and 58 
feet broad within, exclusive of the space allotted to the vestry 
and porches. The pews accommodate 330, and the free seats 
390 persons. The cupola has a clock and one bell. The organ 
was given by Lady Pocock, of Ray Lodge, in 1825. Over 
the communion-table is an excellent picture, painted and pre¬ 
sented to the chapel by the late Isaac Pocock, Esq. The 
subject is the blessing little children by Christ. 

There is no cemetery to this chapel, nor is there any right 
of sepulture. The following interments, however, are com¬ 
memorated on slabs removed from the old chapel:— 

1 John Whitfield, Esq., died 9 April, 1663. Hannah 

Whitfield, his widow, died 5 July, 1665. 

2 David Gregory, M.D., Savillian Professor at Oxford, 

died here on his return from Bath, 1720. (There is a 
monument to his memory in St. Mary’s, Oxford.) 

3 Robert Bever, Under-Sheriff of Berks, and Mayor of 

Maidenhead, died 29 April, 1723, aged 63. (A white 
marble tablet on the north wall.) 

There are handsome mural tablets of white marble to the 
memory of the following persons, who were not, however, in¬ 
terred in this chapel:— 

4 James Payn, Esq., Recorder of Maidenhead, died 22 Jan y 

1822, aged 77. . 

5 George Vansittart, Esq., of Bisham Abbey, High 

Steward of the Corporation of Maidenhead, died 21 
January, 1825, aged 82. 

6 Rev. Eardley Childers, for nearly three years Curate of 

Maidenhead, died at Nice, 7 March, 1831, aged 52. 


138 


MAIDENHEAD. 


There is a handsome service of Sacramental Plate, given by 
the following benefactors :—Two silver flagons, a chalice, and 
a paten: “ Ricardus Robinson Ciuis Londoniensis dedit in 
usum Capellce de Maidenhead natus ibidem: 1657.” A silver 
plate: “ D. D. J. Whitfield, Ar. in usum Capellae de Maiden¬ 
head pro pane consecrato, an° Dom. 1727.” 

Hist of ©fjaplams. 

(No entry is found in the Salisbury Registers before 
1765.) 

■“ Galeridtjs, Capeil de Maydenhuth,” named in the 
Cookham C. R. 18th Rich. II., 1395.— (C. K.) 

-Blower occurs (deed of feoffment, formerly among the 

corporation muniments) as the chaplain in 1412. 

Thomas Mettingham occurs {Pat. Rolls ) in 1452, as Chap¬ 
lain of the Chauntry. He was the first Overseer of the 
Guild of Maidenhead. 

Henry Wood, Curate of M. in 1579. — {Will of John 
Webb in Arch. Court , Oxford .) 

James Spigurnell occurs as Minister of Maidenhead in 
1606. (Then 48 years old.— Cookham C. R.) He died 
about 1630. 

John Dawson was nominated to this Chapelry by the Cor¬ 
poration about 1630. Anthony a Wood states that he 
was “ a most eminent preacher of his time,” and that he 
became first conversant with the Muses in Christ Church 
in Michaelmas term, 1620, aged about 15 years. He 
took one degree of Arts, and afterwards entering into 
Holy Orders, was made perpetual Chaplain of Maiden¬ 
head, where, and in the neighbourhood, he was much 
resorted to for his edifying preaching. He died in the 
prime of his years, in 1641.” Buried at Cookham. Author 
of “ XVIII. Choice Sermons, Preached upon the Incar¬ 
nation and Nativity of our Blessed Lord,” published 1642. 

Matthew Hole, D.D., formerly of Exeter College, Oxford, 
was the next chaplain. 

John Jones occurs in 1670-1.— {Corporation Records .) 

John Lord, nominated by the Corporation 13th August, 
1672. 

J ohn Thomson succeeded, being nominated by the Corpora¬ 
tion in 1681. Chaplain in 1728. 

Charles Millar was the first chaplain who received insti- 



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139 


tution from the bishop (the chapel having become a 
benefice in 1726, by the grant of Queen Anne’s Bounty). 
Instituted 1 June, 1735. Died 1743. 

Humfuey Henchman was instituted 30 June, 1743, on the 
presentation of the Mayor. The present parsonage- 
house was built in his time (1753), and in a great 
measure by his liberality. He was doubtless of the same 
family as Humfrey Henchman, Bishop of Salisbury 1660. 
He died in 1779. The chapel was vacant for nearly 
three years, during a suit on the right of patronage 
between the inhabitants and the Corporation. 

Arthur Onslow was instituted 1st March, 1782, on the 
nomination of the Mayor, &c. He was son of General 
Onslow, and nephew to the Speaker; Dean of Wor¬ 
cester, and Archdeacon of Berks. Died 1817. 

John Greig. Instituted 2 May, 1818, on the nomination 
of the Mayor, &c. 

James Knollis, M.A., presented by the Corporation. In¬ 
stituted 13th Sept. 1819. In 1823 presented to Vicarage 
of Penn, Bucks, by Earl Howe. 

The Chauntry.— “In the year 1352, John Hosebond, 
citizen and corndealer of London, left by will a£100, to pur¬ 
chase a rent-charge for the endowment of a certain Chauntry 
[doubtless the Chauntry of St. Mary Magdalene, already ex¬ 
isting—not one newly founded by John Hosebond], of one 
priest in the chapel of St. Andrew and St. Mary Magdalene, 
in Maydenhuth, to pray year by year for the souls of himself 
and of Bichard Bryde (Bridde, or Bryd) and Margery his 
wife.”—(See Appendix) In pursuance of this bequest, it was 
agreed between his executor John Beyner (living in 1340, 
B . C. R) and the Prior and Convent of Hurley (by deed dated 
in their Chapter House, on the 1st of May, 1352), that that 
Beligious House should find and maintain a Chaplain (who 
should be a secular priest and not a monk), to say a “ Placebo ,” 
a “ Biriffe ,” and a “ Commendation daily, except on Christmas- 
day, Easter-day, and Whit-Sunday .—(Close Rolls , 26 Edw. 
III., m. 19, back.) 

This Chauntry possessed the following property (besides its 
original endowment), before the Dissolution:— 

1. One acre of land, called “ Tryndle Acre,” in a field 
named Wellande (or Wellhouse-field) in Cookham, formerly 
given by one William Brice (living 1503), for “a light in 


140 


MAIDENHEAD. 


Maidenhead Chapel,” of the annual rent of 12 d.) in 1570, it 
was in the occupation of Richard Hartwell. 

2. A rent of 3s. 4 d. from a tenement in Cookham, paid till 
the Dissolution of Bisham Priory: in 1570, this tenement 
was in the possession of Richard Cossiter. 

3. A rent of 4s. from land in the possession (1570) of Wil¬ 
liam Mollem. 

4. A tenement and 1J acre of land in Maidenhead, of the 
annual rent of 4s. 8 d. (over and above 3s. 4 d. paid to Eton 
College), in the occupation (1570) of John Cornyn. This 
property was leased by the Crown in 1570 to Edward Annes¬ 
ley (a family from Annesley, Notts); in 1577 to Margaret 
Annesley, and in 1594 to Charles Paget for 21 years; together 
with the late possessions of the dissolved Chauntry of New¬ 
ton Placye. 

Of this property, Nos. 1 and 4 were granted in 1606 to 
Thomas Emerson and William Bennett and their heirs; from 
whom they passed to Gervoise Ermeston, who conveyed them 
to John Langton, early in the reign of Charles I. In 1637, 
Mr. Dawson, the Chaplain of Maidenhead, under a wrong con¬ 
ception of his right, petitioned the Crown for a restitution of 
this property, to which Mr. Langton made good his title by 
the production of the deeds just named. 

The following return in 1548 relates to this Chauntry:— 
“ Cokeham ; lande geven to the maintenaunce of an Obite 
and Lampe, and also to the reparacion of Maydenhed Bridge, 
by yere x s viij d ; whereof in reparacions yerely done and made 
uppon the saide Brige at Maydenhedd, viij 3 ij d ; and so rem* 
to the saide Obite and Lampe, ij s vi d .”—( Certificates , Augmen¬ 
tation Office, 2 Edw. YI. No. iii. 31.) 

“ In the year 1548, this chapel was returned to Edward YI. 
as follows :—“ Cokeham. A chapel of Ease erected in May¬ 
denhed for the ease of the Inhabitance ther, worthe by yere 
inland and rent, nil, Goodes remayning ther lvj s x d ; over 
and beside ij chalices, a pax, and a paire of crevveths, posed 
xlij oz. fs [42^ oz.] ; and ij bells not yet preysed.” 

From the Dissolution to about 1557, the Chapel of Maiden¬ 
head was without a minister. The endowment for the Chaunter 
was no longer available, Hurley Priory having been suppressed 
(in 1535; its possessions were granted in 1536 to Westminster 
Abbey), and the inhabitants being altogether indisposed to sup¬ 
ply the deficiency of stipend by their own contributions, about 
1557 petitioned the Crown for a pension in aid of his main¬ 
tenance. No answer to their petition has been discovered; 


MAIDENHEAD. 


141 


but that its prayer was complied with may be assumed, since 
the minister of the Chapel receives at this day a pension of 
4/. 13^. 4 d. (seven marks) out of the Land Revenue Office of 
the Exchequer. 

The emoluments of Maidenhead Chapel, besides a house and 
the pension of 4/. 135. 4 d. mentioned above, are as follows:— 

(1) A portion of the pew rents (in lieu of stipend which 
the inhabitants were bound to provide, by the conditions of 
the original foundation) belongs to the minister. 

(2) About one rood of land in Bray Parish, called Forleys, 
was given to the minister between 1635 and 1692. (Ashmole 
incorrectly ascribes this gift to “ John Housbond, the founder 
of the Chauntry.” The Chapel had no land in 1548, nor in 
1635, temp . Dawson’s Petition to Charles I. The gift must 
therefore have been between 1635 and 1692, when Ashmole 
died.) 

(3) Mr. James Smith, Citizen and Salter, of London, inl659, 
gave 11. (since increased by the Court of Chancery to 21.) to the 
minister of Maidenhead for a sermon on the 1st of January. 

(4) A meadow in Cookham Parish, called Little Eastmoor 
Hill (about 2^ acres), was given in reversion to the minister of 
Maidenhead, by George Townsend, Esq., of Lincoln’s Inn, in 
1633; it came into his possession before 1692. 

(5) Mr. Charles Davis, of the parish of St. James, West¬ 
minster, gave, in 1716, 105. to the minister of Maidenhead for 
a sermon on 11th of November. 

(6) John Whitfield, Esq., in 1720, endowed this chapelry 
with 240/., to which the Governors of Queen Ann’s Bounty 
added 200/. With this benefaction 30 acres of land in Wo¬ 
burn, Bucks, were purchased in 1726. 

(7) Richard Whitfield, Esq., of Ive’s Place, Maidenhead, 
by will proved 1729-30, gave 250/.; Mrs. Frances West, in 
1742 bequeathed 250/., and Queen Ann’s Bounty added 200/.; 
with which sums about 35 acres at Fifield in Bray were pur¬ 
chased in 1743. 

(8) A ground rent of 4/. per annum for part of the site of 

the present chapel taken from the parsonage garden, is charged 
upon the pew rents. , , , , . 

In an undated Terrier (about 1782) the land belonging to 
the Chapelry is stated to be 82a. 2r. 24p. 

The net annual income of this augmented Chapelry was 
returned in 1836 as 172/.— {CollectaneaTopographica et Gene - 
alogica, published by Nichols, vol. vi.) 


142 


MAIDENHEAD. 


CSrUtItr of §bt. ^tntofo anb Sbt JFtarp 4$lag;baletu, 
of JFlattnmbtab. 

In the year 1452, Thomas Metingham, Priest of the 
Chauntry founded by John Hosebonde, in Maidenhead Chapel, 
petitioned King Henry VI. to grant his licence for the 
establishment of a Guild in the aforesaid chapel, to be called, 
“ The Overseer, Wardens, Brethren, and Sisters of the 
Fraternity or Guild of St. Andrew and St. Mary Mag¬ 
dalene, of Maidenhuth,” for the following purposes :— 

1st. For the perpetual maintenance and confirmation of the 
aforesaid Chauntry. 

2ndly. For the continual reparation and keeping up of the 
bridge over the Thames, which had then gone far into decay, 
and was exceedingly dangerous. 

In compliance with this petition, the King incorporated the 
following persons :—Thomas Metingham, the chaplain; John 
Noris, esquire of the body to Henry VI.; John Pury, Esquire ; 
William Noris; Koger Noris; Thomas Babham; and Henry 
Fraunceis; with permission to elect brethren and sisters into 
the said fraternity, which was to find wax lights and other 
articles necessary for the celebration of masses in the Chauntry, 
and to repair the bridge. The Guild had power to elect 
annually two wardens, and new members, agreeably to the 
rules which should be framed by the above seven persons. 
Thomas Metingham and his successors in the Chauntry were 
to hold the office of overseer. The guild was to have a com¬ 
mon seal. (No common seal of this Guild has yet been dis¬ 
covered ; the seal at present used by the corporation of Maiden¬ 
head was possibly that of one of its overseers or wardens.) 
To make statutes and bye-laws; to be capable of holding 
lands and other possessions to the amount of ten marks 
(6/. 13s. 4 d.) ; and to take toll for the repair of the bridge. 

(The entry may be found in the Patent Rolls , 30 Hen. VI. 
p. 2, m. 1.) 

This guild, of course, shared the fate of all similar fra¬ 
ternities, being dissolved in 1547. However, in 1577, with a 
view to the revival of a corporation, the above patent for the 
establishment of a guild was exemplified by an Inspeximus 
(dated at Gorhambury, 28th August, 20 Eliz.), at the request 
of Sir Henry Neville, William Weldon, Esq., Silvester Peck, 
gentleman ; Robert Davus, and John Webb. 

The first charter of incorporation of the town of Maiden¬ 
head was granted soon after, and bears date 7 th March, 


MAIDENHEAD. 


143 


24 Elizabeth (1581-2). This corporation succeeded to all the 
duties of the ancient guild, except that of superintending and 
maintaining the divine offices in the chapel; it consisted of one 
warden, two bridgemasters, and eight burgesses. 

The second charter was obtained 4th August, 2 James I. 
(1604), for the same constitution. 

The third charter was granted 12th March, 15 Charles II. 
(1663, as before.) 

(In 1663, the marhet-day was transferred form Monday to 
Wednesday .) 

The fourth charter is dated 15th June, 1 James II. (1685), 
and named a high steward (Sir Robert Sawyer, Knt., Attorney- 
General), and a town clerk, in addition to the former officers; 
the title of warden being now superseded by that of mayor. 
This constitution continued till the general change under the 
Act for Municipal Reform, 1836. (5 8c 6 Gul. 1Y. cap. 76.) 

—(Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 3 published by 
Nichols, vol. vi.) 

TOWN HALL. 


The old “ Guild-hall, with the sergeant's house and the 
buildings belonging thereto, being not only very ill-convenient 
and cold for the corporation to assemble in to hold their courts, 
but also being very old, and in a very ruinous condition," was 
removed in the year 1777. The materials were sold to Mr. 
James Payn for 100£, and a further sum of 500^. was bor¬ 
rowed on mortgage on the houses belonging to the Corporation, 
towards the erection of the New Town Hall, the estimate for 
which amounted to 1330^. A leaden plate bearing the fol¬ 
lowing inscription was embedded in the foundation-stone of 

the present structure :— 

“ The Foundation Stone 
of 

this Edifice was laid 

on the 13 th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1777, in the 
17 th year of the reign of His Majesty, George III rd , 

By Abraham Darby, Esq r , Mayor, 

In the presence of the Corporation of Maidenhead. 

Penyston Powney, Esq.—High Steward. 

Robert Yansittart, Esq.—Recorder. 

Richard Taylor, Aspin Taylor.—Bridgemasters. 

Henry Emblin, John Gould, \ 

Will. Rose, John Clark, f 
John Boult, John Butterfield, 1 
John Langton, James Atlee, ) 

James Payn.—Town Clerk. 

Theodosius Keene.—Surveyor. 

Thomas Emblin, 1 Buildere » 

John Cooper, j 


Burgesses. 


(Corporation Minute Book.) 


144 


MAIDENHEAD. 


INNS. 

Camden says that, after the townsmen “ had built here a 
wooden bridge upon piles, it began to have inns, and to be so 
frequented as to outvie its neighbouring mother, Bray, a much 
more ancient place.” 

The earliest notice in the B. C. B. of the ancient hostelries 
of Maydenhuth concerns 

The “Bull .”—Anno 1459. “Thomas Hille, tithingman, 
presented that William Mordall holds an inn called the f Bulle/ 
and takes exorbitant gain.” 

Again : Anno 1489. “ Alice Bukland holds an inn called 

the f Bulle/ and takes excessive gain.” 

Anno 1495. “ Thomas Annesley tenet coe hospicium vocat 
le Bull.”* 

From various other entries it appears that the present house, 
if not the original structure, stands at least on the site of “ Le 
Bulle” of 1459. 

On the e^st side of the Town Hall formerly stood the— 
“Old Bear ” Inn. —Anno 1489. “Presented that John 
Ffraunces holds an inn called f The Beyre/ and charges an 
unlawful price for provisions.”— (B. C. B.) 

1495. “Itm. pres* qd Joftes Ffraunces est cois hospitator 

* Pedigree of the Annesleys of Maidenhead ( Harl. MS. 1081) with additions 
from, the Bray and Cookham Court Rolls :— 

Thomas Aunsley, or Annesley (living 1525, B. C. R .), descended from the 

Annesleys of Annesley, Notts, married.dau. of William Peeke, of 

Maidenhead, by whom he had issue, 

Henry Annesley (died seised of Monkendons, 1546), who, by his wife, Dorothy, 
dau. of John Kempe, of Twickenham, Co. Middlesex, had issue three daughters, 
Joan, wife of Atkynson; Maryel ; and Cecelia ; and one son, 

Edmund ? (Edward, see Account of Maidenhead Chauntry ), who, by his wife, 
Margaret, dau. of Sir John Speeke, Kt., of Whitlackington, Co. Somerset, 
had issue, 

1. Henry, who died in 1601, seised of the estate called Monkendons, which 

then became the property of his brother , Nicholas Annesley. —( C.C.R.) 
In 1605, Nicholas Annesley, and his mother Margaret Padgett, widow, 
sold “Mereworths” in Maidenhead to Edward Prescott, Citizen and 
Salter, of London.— (B. C. R.) 

2. Francis, “ second sonne.”— (Harl. MS.) 

3. Elizabeth. 4. Anne. 

Further Notices from the B. C. R. 

Anno 1498. “Alicia Ansley,” suitors’ fine, vi d . 

,, 1525. “ Thomas Aunesley et Dionisia ux’ eius.” 

,, 1606. Nicholas Annesley, Gent., a suitor. 

The Arms of Annesley of Maidenhead were—“Paly of six, arg. and azure; a 
bend, gu.; thereon a mullet for difference.” 



MAIDENHEAD. 145 

diversorum mulierum illicite condicldis: 10 ipe in mia” vi d .— 

(B. C. B.) 

Mrs. Berkeley, in her voluminous preface to her son's 
poems, relates a singular anecdote of an interview between 
James I. and the Vicar of Bray, at the old “ Beyre;” it is as 
follows:— 

“In the reign of King James I., the king, hunting with 
the buckhounds, lost his way and came quite alone into the 
yard of the ' Bear/ then the only guest inn in Maidenhead. 
He instantly asked what he could have for dinner : the reply 
was rather laconic—'Nothing, sir: it is Lent, and all the fish 
is bespoke, and dressing for dinner for the Vicar of Bray and 
his curate/ The King said, ' Go up to them, and say that 
there is a gentleman here who gives his humble service to 
them, and would be much obliged to them if they would give 
him leave to dine with them/ His Majesty was asked to 
walk up, and they soon entered into conversation. The dinner 
passed off very pleasantly. At length the reckoning was to 
be called for. When it arrived, the King said, ‘ Gentlemen, 
I know not what to do; I left home in haste, and forgot to 
take any money in my pocket, and am really without a 
shilling/ 'A pretty fellow, indeedP quoth the Vicar, 'to 
come and get a dinner from us in this way! No, no; you 
must settle it with the landlord: I’ll not pay for your dinner, 
I promise you/ The curate said, e Oh, Sir! do not speak 
thus to the gentleman: IT1 pay his reckoning, and think my¬ 
self well repaid for his entertaining conversation/ The King 
thanked the curate, and said he certainly would repay him. 
Scarce was this conversation over, when a great noise was 
heard in the ' Bear’ yard : horns blowing; lords, gentlemen, 
yeomen, &c. ‘ Has anything been heard of His Majesty ? 

Has he passed through here?* His Majesty opened the bal¬ 
cony door, and presented himself: instantly there were 100 
bent knees. The poor vicar then bent his knee, and begged 

pardon: ' Did not know it was His Majesty, or- - His 

Majesty replied, ‘ Oh, mon ! I forgive you: you shall be 
Vicar of Bray still, I promise you/ and turning to his friend 
the curate — ( and as there is a Canonry of Windsor now vacant, 
you, mon, shall have it/ ” 

« The Swan." —Anno 1489. “ Bichard Hithe holds an inn 

called the Swan, and sells victuals, and takes excessive gain.” 

_ [Bray C. B.) (The present inn of the same name stands 

on the CooJcham side of the town. 

“ The White Horse.”—“ In the year 1600, Bobert Winch, of 

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146 


MAIDENHEAD THICKET. 


f Lobrook,' yeoman, conveyed to Richard Powney, of Bul¬ 
lock's Hatch, and to Richard Winch, of Shoppenhangers, 
yeomen, all that tenement, &c., lying in Maidenhead, called 
f The White Horse,' bounded by the highway from Reading 
to London on the north ; and the land formerly John Staver- 
ton's, now Thomas Terry’s, on the south; and by the land 
formerly William Blakemore's, on the east; and the highway 
from Maidenhead to Bray wick on the west, &e. &c.; all of 
which the said Robert W. formerly purchased by deed, bear¬ 
ing date 17 April, 36 Eliz., of Richard Wormstone, of 
Maidenhead, Innholder."—( B . C. R.) 

WESLEYAN CHAPEL. 

This chapel, originally belonging to the Countess of Hun- 
tingdon's Connexion, was purchased in 1858 by the Wesleyans, 
when the building was restored, and a commodious room for 
the Sunday-school attached. 

ADDENDA. 

Three fairs nre held in the course of the year—viz., on Whit 
Wednesday, Michaelmas Day, and St. Andrew's Day. 

There is also a market for cattle on the third Tuesday in 
every month. 

The town was lighted with gas in 1834, by Mr. Steer. 

“ On the 16th of July, 1647, Charles I., after several years' 
separation, was allowed to meet his three children at the ‘ Grey¬ 
hound Inn.' The town was strewn with flowers and decked 
with green boughs. They dined, and drove to Caversham, 
where apartments were prepared at the expense of the Par¬ 
liament, in which they passed two days together."— (Murray’s 
Handbook to Berks.) 

The premises, formerly the “ Greyhound Inn," are now 
occupied by Messrs. Trendall and Walker. 

About a mile to the west of the town lies Maidenhead 
Thicket, a tract so infested in early times by robbers and 
highwaymen, that an order was issued in 1255 (39th 

Hen. III.) for widening the road between Maidenhead Bridge 
and Henley-on-Thames, by removing the trees and brushwood 
on each side. This district was so notorious for the number 
of depredations committed in later times, that, “ in the Act 
of 39 Elizabeth, c. xxv., passed ‘ for enlarging the Statutes for 
following Hue and Cry,' the hundred of Beynhurst, in which 


MAIDENHEAD RACE-COURSE. 


147 


the thicket stands, was specially exempted from penalties 
where there had been no voluntary default; and in the same 
reign, the Vicar of Hurley, who served the cure of Maiden¬ 
head, was allowed an extra salary for the danger of passing 
the thicket.”—( Quarterly Review, No. 211.) 

Some idea may be formed of the nature of this dangerous 
road in the time of Henry VIII., from Leland’s account of 
his journey from Maidenhead to Twyford. For two miles the 
road was narrow and woody; dangerous enough; then came 
the Great Frith (Brit. “ Frith,” a wood) three miles long: 
altogether, a wood infested with robbers five miles in extent ! 
“ and then,” he says, “ to Twyford, a praty tounlet a two 
miles.” Twyford was undoubtedly a charming spot after a 
route so long and perilous. 

The thicket was once celebrated for its race course, which 
extended from Boyn Hill to Canon Chalk Pit on the Bray side. 
The races have been discontinued for nearly half a century. 
The following notice is from the Racing Calendar for 
September, 1801:— 


“ MAIDENHEAD. 

“ On Monday, the 28 th of September, a subscription of 5 gs. 
each, for a silver cup value £50, the remainder in specie, for 
horses, &c., that never won a plate or sweepstakes of the 
value of £50. 4 mile heats. (10 Subscribers.) 

“ Mr. Spencer’s bay mare, Luisa, by High 

Flyer, 9st. 111b..11 

“Mr. Smith’s chesnut filly, by Don 

Quixote, 4 years old, 9st. 111b . . . 2 dr.” 


Family of French, of Maidenhead, from the B. C. R. 

1327 Roger le Ferenssh committed an assault on John 
le Slouttre, Chaplain, in 1333. “ Tarbernator,” in 

1334. Died in 1335, seised of a messuage held at 
5 s per ann., when 

John le Ferench, his son and heir, paid for his 
‘ Relief’ 5 s . 

1335 Margaret, wife of Roger le Ffrenssh. “Tavernatrix,” 
1334. 

(Robert Baler held Roger French's tenement in 1376.) 

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148 


MAIDENHEAD. 


1334 Emma, relict of Walter le Ffrensh. 

(1333. “Agnes anctt Emme le Efrenshe.)” 

1338 Reginald le Ffrensche, Died 1350, when 

Alice, relict of Reginald le F., and guardian of 
Reginald, his son and heir, gave to the lord 8 d for 
suit of court, &c. 

In 1495, Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, relict of Sir John 
Norreys, died seised of a tenement, “vocaF Ffrenche.” Sir 
William Norreys succeeded to her estates.— (E. C. R.) 


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The Hundred of Bray is considered to have been the province 
of the Bibracte.—( Camden .) 

The only probable remains of the ancient British inhabitants 
of this locality, are the singular excavations or pits on Maiden¬ 
head Thicket. (Similar remains exist at Little Coxwell, Berks, 
which the late Honourable Danes Barrington considered to 
have been the habitations or hiding-places of the ancient 
Britons.— (Lyson's Berks.) Also at Perborough, in the Hun¬ 
dred of Compton, Berks.—(WeHewetPs Hundred of Compton, 
p. 71; see also Knight’s Old England , vol. i. p. 22.) The 
pits on the Thicket are all circular and bowl-shaped, mea¬ 
suring from six to eight yards in diameter at the top, and 
varying from three to ten feet in depth. The greater number 
are arranged in the form of an acute angle, one of the sides of 
which runs along the north side of the Maidenhead and 
Reading road. The other side, consisting of seven pits, ex¬ 
tends from the western extremity of the latter series to the 
north-east, and is terminated by the large pit near the eight 
poplars on the east side of the thicket. 

There is another row parallel to the first, on the south side 
of the Great Western road, but the pits (five in number), are 
not so regularly disposed. From the east end of this series, 
another row diverges at right angles, and terminates at Tittle 
Row, behind the cottage bordering upon the thicket: (the last 
of these pits has been recently filled up by Mr. Silver.) The 
largest pits are at the extremities of the lines. 

About two hundred yards up the Maidenhead and Henley 
road, and in the vicinity of these excavations, is a bold em¬ 
bankment about five feet in height, ten feet in diameter, and 
eighty yards in length. This earthwork, from its curved form, 
has evidently formed a portion of a large circular entrench- 



150 


ROMAN ROADS. 


ment; and from its peculiar construction and its proximity to 
the pits, is unquestionably of British origin. 

On the opposite side of the thicket, and at no great dis¬ 
tance from these rude vestiges of the primitive inhabitants of 
this locality, are unmistakeable evidences of the presence of a 
people far more advanced in the science of war—the presence 
of that “fourth” prophetical kingdom, “ strong as iron — 
breaking in pieces , and subduing all things .” The principal of 
these earthworks lies on the south side of the thicket, near the 
track leading from Tittle Bow to Woolley. It consists of a 
large quadrangular entrenchment about two hundred yards in 
diameter, and is unquestionably of Boman origin. 

About half a mile to the north of this, is another earthwork 
of the same form, about fifty yards in diameter. This very 
perfect and interesting fortification is generally known by the 
name of “ Bobin Hood’s Arbour.” It has evidently formed 
a kind of outpost to the principal encampment, and appears 
to have been strongly fortified; the fosse is in excellent 
preservation. 

These remains, characteristic of two distinct nations, lie 
side by side; the former partaking of the rude and irregular 
character of the works of the Britons, the latter, the well- 
known features of Boman castrametation. They are, more¬ 
over, coeval. The reason of their proximity is obvious. As 
an argument in favour of their antiquity , it should be remem¬ 
bered that the thicket has never been cultivated , and that until 
comparatively modern times there were but few habitations 
in the locality; any remains, therefore, existing thereon, cor¬ 
responding as these do with the known habits and systems of 
a primitive people, must of necessity be the work of a former, 
and not the productions of a later age. 

These earthworks are perhaps now the only evidence of the 
contest between the ancient Bibroci and the Boman power; 
and although we are informed that this tribe was among the 
first to lay down their arms at the feet of their conqueror, 
it is evident that it was not without a struggle for the de¬ 
fence of their liberties, and for the freedom of their hearths 
and homes. 

Boman Boafcrg. 

The course of an ancient Boman road may he distinctly 
traced from Braywick, as far as the tumulus at Cockmarsh, 
in the parish of Cookham. It consists of a well-defined 
ridge of earth, the crest of which in some places attains an 


ROMAN ROADS. 


151 


elevation of nearly three feet. Beginning at Bray wick (an¬ 
ciently “ Wick” (R. C. R.), from the Latin vicus, a street or 
way), the ridge appears in the park belonging to John Hib- 
bert, Esq., and passing Staverton Lodge, may be traced 
through “ Park Field” to the railway embankment, where it 
is in excellent preservation. Leaving Maidenhead, the an¬ 
cient Alaunodunum ( Leland ), it reappears in a direct line with 
the former track a little beyond North Town, near the rail¬ 
way (Wycombe branch). Passing diagonally across Mr. 
Silvester's field, called “ Pound Field,” it crosses the narrow 
lane from Maidenhead, and the corner of a field called 
“ Carter's Field,” in the occupation of Mr. Bulstrode; then 
passing over the road leading to Cookham Dean, it reappears 
in “ Windmill Field” at the end of the farm buildings belong¬ 
ing to Mr. Bulstrode, in the vicinity of the Cookham railway 
station. From the station platform a good view may be 
obtained from it as it extends over the hill in the direction of 
Cockmarsh. 

Tumuli usually attend the course of the early Roman 
roads in this country, and are generally found where the 
road descends a kill, approaches a station, or throws off a 
branch ( vide Bohn's Rick, of Cirencester ); hence the position 
of the tumulus at Cockmarsh is a remarkable confirmation of 
the Roman origin of this ancient road. I have not followed 
its course further northward, but the route thus indicated 
would extend by Bason bury near High Wycombe, and so by 
Green Street to Cold Harbour, near Wycombe Heath. 

From Bray wick southward, the course is not so well de¬ 
fined ; there are, however, indications of it at the north end 
of “ Holy port Field,” consisting of a broad ridge (the “ Devil’s 
Highway,” a Roman road south of this county, is in some 
places 90 feet in width) about 300 yards in length. The 
genuineness of this tract is confirmed by the discovery of a 
fine Roman urn, containing charred bones and ashes, not 
more than 30 yards distant, at the formation of the parish 
gravel-pit, about forty-five years ago. From a fragment in 
my possession, it must have measured 18 inches in diameter. 

. The course indicated must have passed through Fifield, in the 
vicinity of the field, now occupied by Mr. Parker, called 
“ Brocwicks” (a name highly suggestive), and so on by Spar¬ 
ry (“ Spawbury,” 1366— B. C. R.), in the direction of the 
large quadrangular entrenchment about 1^ mile S.S.W. of 
Virginia Water. 

It is stated in the Appendix to Bohn's edition of Rickard oj 


152 


ROMAN STATION. 


Cirencester, that the names Sam, Street, Stane, and Stone 
(Strat, and Stan, when compounded) generally indicate the 
course of a British or Roman way. v 

The following names relate to localities betiveen Bray and 
Maidenhead :— 

1 Anno 1336.—“ Dunmede apud le STAN-neye.”— (B. C. R.) 
(A.-S. stanig, stony.) 

2 a.d. 1600. “ STANshall acre,” between Forlease and 

Queenlease.— ( B . C. R.) 

3 GarsTONS, the name of the meadow belonging to the 
vicarage adjoining Bray churchyard, now corruptly pro¬ 
nounced “ Garsons,” or “ Garstins.” Anno 1339 .—“ Nigellus 
atte Garston'' claimed his right of pasturage in “ Elde-feld” 
adjoining. (Observe, “ atte,” or “ at,” Garston: hence 
Garston is an original local name, not derived from ancient 
possessors.) In the corner of this field, near the vicarage, 
Roman coins have been found; and near the same place two 
human skeletons, lying side by side, were discovered about 
thirty years ago. 

Another skeleton was discovered in the same track at the 
formation of the railway bridges over the ditch running from 
Ive's Place to Bray wick. 

The course thus indicated evidently led from “ Ere-burgli- 
feld,” near Down Place, to Maidenhead, joining the northern 
road somewhere near the railway embankment. A writer in 
the Gentleman’s Magazine, for August, 1795, notices the remains 
of a Roman road at Bray. He says :—“ A short piece of a 
Roman highway was thought, some years ago, to have been 
discovered between the river and the east corner of Bray 
churchyard ; and certain it is, that several Roman coins, 
together with fragments of armour and weapons, have been at 
different times ploughed up in the East Huy—a common 
field lying on the east side of Bray town.” (The same writer 
also alludes to the Roman camp on Maidenhead Thicket, as 
well as to the antiquities, consisting of British celts, a Roman 
lamp, &c., found at St. Leonard's Hill.) 

Homan Sbtatton near 23rag. 

Between Down Place and Builders' Well is a large 
ploughed field, termed in a survey of 1747 “ Arbour Bridge 
Pasture;” and between this meadow and the Thames was 
Arbour Lane. “ Ere-burgh-feld apud Ocle” occurs in the 
B. C. R. of 1336. This name is highly suggestive, signifying 


ROMAN COINS. 


153 


the “ Field of the Former Town.” Numerous Roman coins 
have been found here and at Down Place, including specimens 
of the reigns of Caesar Vespasian (of silver, commemorative 
of the subjugation of Judea), Julianus, Constantitjs, Con- 
stans, Constantines, Valens, Gallienus, and Arcaditjs. A 
few years ago human remains were discovered at a depth of 
three feet in the gardens belonging to Mrs. Harford, on the 
north-west side of Down Place. 

Adjoining “Arbour-field” is “Builders* Well” (“Bylderes 
Well/* 1424— B. C. R.), where, according to a well-known 
legend, the foundations of the parish church were originally 
laid; but, owing to the influence of the powers of darkness, 
the “builders” were unable to proceed, on account of the 
mysterious removal of their daily work during the night, to 
the present site near the Thames. As the legend relates to 
this interesting locality, it is not without its value; divest it 
of its supernatural features, and it is strangely coincident with 
etymological evidence. 

Again, close by Builders* Well are Bury-pits (Sax. Buph, 
a town , a fort), unquestionably identical with “ Bray-BURY** in 
B. C. B. of 1362. 

There is another name occurring in the B. C. R. of 
41 Edward III. (1368) of a highly interesting nature; but I 
regret to state that I have been wholly unable to identify its 
locality: this is 

“ 23atljmg=me&e.” 

As there is a tradition of a battle having been fought on 
Bray Downs, the name may possibly relate to some place in 
this neighbourhood.— (See East Kay , p. 152.) 

Hist of 3Homan Quoins 

Found in the Parish of Bray, in the Possession of Mr. W. H. 

WoODWELL. 

1 “ anton in vs . avg . pivs . p. f and on the reverse, 

beneath the portico of a temple, “ cos . mi.” 

2 “ FAVSTINA . AVGVSTA.” (Died A.D. 141.) 

3 “ constantinvs . avg . c. . . . . f and on the reverse, 

“ gloria exercitvs /* and on another, “ providentia . 

S . AVG . C.” 

4 “ m . commodvs . ant.R . FELIX . avg. On re¬ 

verse, “etatis .and beneath the figure, 

“. . . . OSVP . . . 





154 


ROMAN COINS. 


5 Inscribed “ constantinopolis ;” on the reverse, a winged 

figure of Victory. 

6 “ const an tin vs . ivnno ;” on reverse, “ gloria exer- 

cltvs j” another has “vot . x,” surrounded by 

“ CACSAR . N . . . . NON . . . 

7 " imp . m . ivl . philippvs . avg . . . .” (Assassinated 

a.d. 249.) 

8 “ imp . c . postvmvs . pe . avg.” On reverse, “ salvs . 

postvmi .... v (Proclaimed Emperor in 

Gaul, a.d. 260.) 

9 “ crispvs . nob . caes.” On reverse, an altar, inscribed 

“votis . xx.,” surrounded by “ beata . tranqvillitas.” 
(Poisoned a.d. 326.) 

10 <( imp . caes . vespas . . . . ro.rex.” On re¬ 

verse, ec portunae . . . .” (Found in Mrs. Williams' 

field, east of the causeway between Braywick and 
Bray.) 

11 Another, of silver, inscribed “ caesar . vespasianvs.” 

12 Another, of silver, inscribed “ caesar . vespasianvs.” 

On reverse, a female sitting dejectedly under a palm- 
tree, with the legend “ ivdaea . capta.” (Found near 
Philiberts, and another of the same kind near Down 
Place.) 

13 <c iv lian .... sa ....;” on reverse, “ . . . s . . . 

ac . . . .” (Circa 361.) 

14 “ dn . magnentivs . pf . avg.” On reverse, in the centre, 

“ vot . v . mvlt . x,” surrounded by “ victoriae . d . d . 
n . n . avg . et . caes.” At the bottom, “ R . M . B.” 

15 “ GALLIENVS . . . .” 

16 u IMP . GAETA . . . .” 

17 “ fl . Helena . avgvsta.” (Died a.d. 328.) On reverse, 

“ SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE.” S . T . R.” 

18 (Silver). imp . c . p . lic . valentinvs . p . f . avg.” 

(Found near Holyport.) 

Note. —Mr. W. H. Wood well has about 100 others quite 
illegible, all found in Bray Parish. 


As the Homan Station at Lawrence Waltham was no great 
distance from Bray, it is probable that the two posts were 
more or less connected. The following list of Homan coins 
found at Lawrence Waltham (Millhey Field), in the pos¬ 
session of Mr. William II. Wood well, will therefore not be un¬ 
acceptable to the antiquary :— 




LAWRENCE WALTHAM COINS. 


155 


1 “ m. antonivs . ayg .... max .” Reverse, “apot . xx.” 

2 “ constantivs nob . AYG .” On reverse, “ genio popyli 

ROMAE.” 

3 “ imp . cl . tacitvs . ayg.” Reverse, “ salvs . avg.” 

4 “ Constantin vs avg.” On reverse, “ con . . , . os . . . 

D . . . . MILIT.” 

5 “ Constantin vs . ivN . nob . c.” On reverse, “ caesarvm 

nostrorvm—str.” In the centre, “ vot . x.” 

6 “ ivl . crispvs . nob . caes.” On reverse, “ beata tra.n- 

QVILL1TAS,” with “ VOTIS . XX.” 

7 “ dn . gratianvs . avg . . . .” On reverse, “ corinno.” 

8 “ IMP . CAES . NERVA . TRAIAN . AVG . GERM . DACICVS.” Oil 

reverse, “ tr . p . vrim .... cos . v . p . p .” (a.d. 
96-98.) 

9 “ IMP . CARASIVS . P.F . AVG.” 

10 “ IMP . LICINVS.” 

11 . . . . LVCIVS . AVG .” 

12 “ IMP . C . PROBVS . P.F . AVG.” 

13 “ IMP . VICTORINVS P.F . AVG.” 

14 "... . clavdivs . avg .” On reverse, “ salvs . . . .” 

15 “imp .... magnentivs avg.” Reverse, “felicia 

REPVBLICIA.” 

16 “ DN . ARCADIVS.” 

17 “. . . . Hadrian vs . . . .” (In the author’s possession.) 


jTOtSttUaneous. 

From the Household Book of Edward VI., December, 
Anno I. (1547) :— 

“Paid to John Norris, Gentilman Vsher, for himselfe 
and one grome, for ryding and geaving attendaunce 
vpon Mr. Gates, the Kingis deputie, at the Christening 
of M r Symharbe's childe at Bray, by the space of two 
days—xxx s viij d .” — ( Trevelyan Papers, by J. P. 
Collier, Esq.) 


Lines addressed to the Landlord of the “ Orkney Arms,” 
Maidenhead, in 11 Sb, from “ Gentleman's Magazine .” 

“ Friend Isaac, ’tis strange you that live so near Bray, 

Should not set up the sign of ‘ The Vicar;’ 

Though it may be an odd one, you cannot but say 
It must needs be a sign of good liquor.” 





156 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


ANSWER. 

“Indeed, master poet, your reason’s but poor, 
For the vicar would think it a sin, 

To stay like a booby, and lounge at the door: 
’Twere a sign ’twas bad liquor within.” 


Bray-wood, in 1752, comprised as much as 300 acres. The 
trees were numbered and sold by auction in 1817. Near 
this wood was New-lodge-green, where, in 1798-9 and 
1800, grand reviews of cavalry were held, at one of which, a 
little child accidentally left by its father in his hurry to 
escape from a f grand charge/ was dexterously snatched up by 
one of the soldiers whilst at full speed, and its life preserved. 


Bray Constable. —“ Bray has been lately talked of on 
acct. of its constable, who was some years ago condemned at 
Kingston for robbing on the highway .”—[Magna Britannia, 
vol. i. p. 182, edit. 1720.) 


Charm eor the Tooth-ache, used by an inhabitant of the 
parish of Bray in 1860 !! ! 

“ When Bertron sat on a marble stone near the gates of 
Jerusalem, Jesus said unto him, f What aileth thee, 
O Bertron V He answered and said, f I am troubled 
with the tooth-ache.’ Then Jesus said, e Arise and 
follow Me, and thou shalt be healed of thy pain, and 
not thou only, but every one that beareth an account 
of this miracle for my sake/ Amen.” 


Address presented to Her Majesty the Queen by the 
Female Inhabitants of the Parish of Bray, Nov. 13th, 1820. 

“ Madam, 

“We, the under-signed female inhabitants of the 
Parish of Bray in the Co. of Berks, with the most profound 
respect, approach your Majesty for the purpose of expressing 
the joy we feel that this county is again favoured with your 
royal presence, adding, at the same time, the hopes we enter¬ 
tain that you will continue to spend among us the remainder 
of your days, which, we pray God, may be prosperous and 
happy. Be pleased, Madam, to rest assured that we have 
long felt the deepest concern for your manifold sorrows, and 
now feel the utmost indignation at the horrid accusation 






MISCELLANEOUS. 157 

brought against you, the falsity of which we are thoroughly 
convinced of. 

“ Although, most Gracious Queen, it is with compunction 
that we resuscitate painful emotions in your royal and feeling 
heart, we cannot forbear availing ourselves of the present 
opportunity to testify the undiminished grief we lie under, for 
the loss of your amiable and august daughter, Her late Royal 
Highness the Princess Charlotte, whose early death must 
ever be deplored, whose memory must ever be revered. Most 
sincerely, Madam, do we condole with your Majesty on the 
afflicting deprivation you have suffered by her demise. 

“We hope, Madam, you will do us the honour to number 
us among the most faithful, the most loyal, and the most 
affectionate of your subjects; and we request you to believe, 
that, notwithstanding the exclusion of your name from the 
Liturgy, you continue to have our most hearty prayers, for 
your welfare and preservation, and also for your gaining a 
complete victory over all your enemies.” 

Signed by 617 Female Inhabitants of Bray and part of 
Maidenhead. 

“ Her Majesty’s Most Gracious Answer to the 
foregoing Address. 

“ I gratefully accept this loyal and affectionate address from 
the female inhabitants of the Parish of Bray in the county of 
Berks. 

“ It falls to the lot of few, who are wives or mothers, to 
experience half the cruelties which I have endured. My suf¬ 
ferings, which have been severe in themselves, have been long 
in continuance. They have been, indeed, extended over a 
large portion of the life of man; for, if we extend human life 
to threescore and ten years, which exceeds the common 
average, twenty-five years are more than one-third of the 
whole; yet I have been the object of a vindictive persecution 
for more than five-and-twenty years. If this persecution 
shall ever cease, it will not be owing to the extinguished ran¬ 
cour of my enemies, but to the horror it has awakened and 
the detestation it has excited in every British breast.” 


Brid Family. (From the B. C. R. and C. C. R.) 
1288 “ Margaret Brid of Meydenhuth.”—(B.) 

1333 “ Ricardus Brvd Tarbernator.”—(B.) 

1334 “ Alic’ Bryd est cois tavernatrix(B.) 



158 FAMILIES OF HOSEBUND AND FOWLER. 


1359 John B. held land at “ Bradele” in Cookham.—(C.) 

“ A grant by John Bryd, dated 7 April, 1359, exists 
among the muniments of the Dean and Canons of 
Windsor.” His seal is a lion rampant: legend 
defaced. He died 1372.— [B. C. R., Gorham) 

1375-6 “ Alianora quefuit uxor Johis Brid.”—(B.) 

Hosebund Family (From the B. C. R.) 

1297-1305 Matilda Hosebonde. 

1332 William le Hosebunde. 

1333 “ Helena le Hosebund unjustly retained a horse 

belonging to Boger le Ffrenche.” 

In 1337 William Adam “ de Wyrecestre” and Ellen his wife, 
daughter of William Hosebonde, resigned certain 
lands in Bray formerly belonging to the said Will. 
Hosebonde, to Roger de Southcote, to whom they 
had been previously alienated by John, the son of 
Sir Fulke Fitzwarine. 

1343 John le Hosebunde. 

Feghelere, Ffogheler, or Fowler Family (Bullocks 

Hatch, and Water Oakley). 

Anno 1369 Adam Ffouler and “ Ellen” his wife, sold to 
William Cifrewast and Agnes his wife, 7a. of 
ploughland, and one of meadow. The said 
lands, formerly the property of “Ellen” Bullock , 
were, in 1370, conveyed by the said Will, and 
Agnes, to John Graves, Citizen and Merchant 
of London. 

1422 “ Lands and tenem ts formerly John Ffoghe- 
ler’s. 

1432 (14th July.) Robert Ffowler requested that 

six suitors of court might be allowed to define 
the bounds between his lands and John 
Alfey's. 

1433 “ Joan Ffoughler, executrix of the will of 

Robert F.” 

1450 Robert Ffouler asserted that he and his ances¬ 
tors had from time immemorial held a fishery 
in the Thames, “ cu vj cranelF, et reciis,” and 
desired an extension of the same from the 
Bucks bank to “Hedestake Ware.” The 
augmentation was granted. 


MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. 


159 


1455 Alice, wife of John Palmer, died Dec. 22, 1453, 
seised of Coteres, and two estates called Pal¬ 
mer s. (Heriot, an ox.) Agnes, the wife of 
Ito bert Ffouler, was her only dau. and 
heir. (Relief, 9 s 6 d .) 

Robert Ffouler, 1446, 1459, —76, —89, and 
1 9 5. 

1474 John Ffouler. 

1487 “ Agnes Ffouler, widow, plaintiff,” v 9 “Robert 
Noke, defendant.” 

1503 Katharine Ffowler, 12 d for lands and tene¬ 
ments formerly John Cruchfield's. “ Widow” 
in 1504. In 1506 the wife of John Conryk, 
and executrix of the will of Robert Ffouler. 

1516 Robert, son of Robert Ffouler, did homage for 
his father’s lands. 1522: suitor’s fine, 8 d . 
In 1523, preferred a complaint against Thomas 
Noke, for injury done to his land at Water 
Oakley, to the value of 39 shillings. Died 
before 1530. 

(See Monuments.) 

JfflfeceUaneoug Extracts; from t£sc 23. &, &. 

Anno 8 Ed. III. “ Inquis p totu homag’ de n5nis tenentib 3 
manentib 3 sup p’prestur’ & nonas t 9 ras dni Regis de Okele & 
Ffyfbyde comorantib 3 in vasto dni Reg’ sup le Rugges & 
Crambourne, & alibi, rein usq 3 ad px’.” 

Anno 1376. “Hugo, Baylif Abbachie de Burnham” paid 
ij s for the rent of a certain fishery in the Thames for five 
months. 

Anno 1334. “ Comptu est p inquis tocius homagii manerii 
de Bray qd ille qui fuit Messor cuisdm man 9 ii n’ habebit de 
feodo in quad a m haya int 9 La Leese & campu dni Reg’ vocat 
La Haye n* de gr’a dni man 9 ii illius. Et qr’ comptu est p 
eandih inquis’ qd Johes de Burton Messor man 9 ii illius 
clamando dcam hayam esse feodu suu ptinens ad baliiam 
sua et ipe maxiam pte eiusdih Haye asportavit absq 3 licencia. 
I’o’ ipe in m 9 ia.” 

Anno 14 Edw. III. (1341). “In man’ dni. Pratu tenenciu 
Abbatis deAbyndon deWenekefeld quodvocat~Hokesham-med 
capt’ est in man’ dhe Regine q°usq 3 ijdem tenentes ostend quo 
titlo et quo waranto, et de quo & p que servicia ctam tenere 
pratu p 9 dictih,” &c. 


160 


MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. 


Anno 24 Ed. III. " Pr’ e’ levar’ de rel Abbis de Abyndon 
ij s p rel debit de quad* plac’ p a ti voc’ Hockesh a m.” (1351.) 

Anno 33 Hen. VI. “ Ad lianc cur’ venit dna Jobna Alfeede, 
Abbatissa de Burneh a m p attorn a tu suu Johem Savage et op. 
se versus Johem Crocher in plito tns; et dicit qd dictus Johes 
xij mo die Augusti Anno It. It. nuc xxxij do aquam sepalem dee 
Abbatisse in Tamisia infra jurisdictoem hui’ cur’ int a vit et 
ibm unu Wynche eiusdem Abbatisse existens fodit. et cursum 
aque int 9 dem wynche et ripam Tamisie cum funo et meremio 
obstupavit ad dampnu dee abbate xxxix s et cont’a pace Uni 
Regig. Et inde pducit sect*. Et dictus Johes in ,pp’ia psona 
sua venit et dicit qd maligno p dcam dham Joh a m Ahbam 
p’allegat n5 est inde culp’. Et de hoc ponit se sup patriam.” 

Anno 21 Edw. I. (1293). “ Datu est intelligi p ^curatores 
fabrice eclie de Braye de qua dha Regina patrona est qd que(P 
assessio nup p assens’ c5Itatis 5ium poch fca fuit ad fabrica 
p 9 dcm & qd q a mplures tenentes dne R e q 1 ad dcam fabric’ 
assessi fu 9 ut, ilia assessione solu 9 e recusant p qd dem. op’ eclie 
p 9 dce tardat~ et q’ dha Regina tene~ iuvare mainctenere dcam 
ecliam rone patronatus p 9 dce Ido p’ est bedello qd diligent’ 
eat cu dcis peurat’ ad levand’ dcam assessione de hiis qui solu 9 e 
earn recusant.” 

ECCLESIASTICS MENTIONED IN THE BRAY AND COOKHAM C. R. 

Priors of Bisham. 

Adam, 1409. (C.) 1422. (B.) 

Edward, 1423-32. (B.) 

John, 1444. (B.) Thomas Sewy, Canon. 

Hugh, 1446-50. (B.) 

John, 1451-55. (B.) 

Henry, 1469-83. (C.) 

William, 1492-1506. (B.) 

Prioresses of Bromhall. 

Alice, 1484-7. (B.) 

Anna, 1492-9. (B.) 

The expression, C{ Priorissa de Bromhall ” occurs from 1422 
to the reign of Henry VIII. (B.) 

Ecclesiastics of Cirencester. 

William, Abbot of, 1336. (B.) 

John, a brother of the monastery, and servant to the said 
William, 1336. (B.) 


INQUIS POST MORTEM. 


161 


Richard Here ward, a canon, 1336. (B.) 

John (de Tettebury), “Battis Abbis Cyrencestr',” 1334. 


Miscellaneous . (B. C. R.) 

Thomas Gernon, Vicar of Cookham, 1373. 

Thomas Puttenham, Vicar of Bisham, 1373. 

John Hampslep, Vicar of Hurley, 1373. 

John Shareshull, “psona ecclie de Clywar,” 1369-70. 
Hugo, Warden of Shottesbrook Chauntry, 1370. 

Andrew Saddok, Rector of Whyte Waltham, 1335. 

Joan Alfeede, Abbess of Burnham, 1455. 

Hugo, Bailiff of Burnham Abbey, 1376. 

Edmund, “ cleric 5 ecciie de Walth a m Sci Laur',” 1368. 
Thomas Ruston, Prior of Hurley, 1468. (C.) 

Thomas Hemmyng, “Vicarius de Warfelde,” one of the 
tenants of John West, at whose death, in 1456, he 
attorned to Robert West, son of the said John. 


Additional Notices of Bray,from the “ Cal: Inquis: post 
Mortem —(Record Commission.) 

Anno 50 Hen. III. (No. 47.) 

Ebulo de Montibus, pro Capella Castri de Windesore,— 
Cocham, 1 

Braie, > terr', &c., Berks. 

Kenington, J 

Anno 51 Hen. III. (No. 22.) 

Henr' Wade, Cocus (see Rotuli Eundredorum and 
Roxleys ),— 

PurprestuP infra maner’ de Cocham et Braye. 

Anno 57 Hen. III. (No. 141.) 

Rogerus Bigham,— 

Bray Manerk 

Cocham Maner’ de quadam particuF terrar m 
Wenchefeld & Warfeld in forest' Windesore. 

Anno 57 Hen. III. (No. 196.) 

Abbas de Cyrencester (see Bray Rectory ),— 

Wythebroke ( Whitbrook ), coinunia pastur' ibm. 
Cockmerse, pastur' porcor' ibm. 

M 


162 INQUls’ POST MORTEM. 


Beneffeld, bosc’ pro porcis suis in comunia ibm p 
totnm annum. 

Lawude* } ^ osc ° P P orc ^ s su ^ s ibm quando, &c. 

Inwude, i faggotum ad focum ibm. 

Bray, et Eldefelde ( Old-field ) comunia pasturV 
Cokliam et Bray, porcis quiet’ de pannag’. 


Anno 28 Edward’ I. 

Edmundus, Comes Cornubie,— 

Eeod’ pertin’ Castr’ Lanceneton ( Launceston ). 
Bray, vii feod’. 


Anno 3 Edward’ II. 

JobES Wade (see Foxley Manor ),— 

Braye, unum messuag’ 70 acr’ terr’ et 6 acr’ terr’ 
ibm. 


Anno 1 Edward’ III. 

JotiES Brocas, p certis capellanis,— 

Terr’ & ten’ p 9 tin hospital’ de Wyndesore. 

Cleware, ^ 

Braye, & >cert’ terr’ reman’ eidem Jofti. 
Wyndesore, J 

Anno 3 Edward’ III. 

JotlES DE ScO PHILBERTO,- 

Bray maner’, vis’ franc’ pleg’. 

Gurgites ibm, in aqua Thamis. 

Anno 4 Edw. III. 

Bob 9 tus de Shorteeord, p John de Kenylworth,— 
Braye, 1 mess’ & 30 acr. terr’. 

Coukam, 1 mess’ & 3 virg’ terr’. 

Anno 14 Edw. III. 

W illielmus Trussel de Cublesdon habuit in manerio 
suo de,— 

Shetesbroke, visum de franc’ pleg’ &c., ibm ut de 
castro de Wyndesore, et in hundro de Cokham & 
Braye, sect’ cur’. 

Anno 46 Edw: III. 

Johannes Brocas, ch’r,— 

Braye, terr’ & ten’. 

Clyware, 97 acr’ terr’. 


INQUIS* POST MORTEM. ] 63 

Anno 51 Edw. III. 

Willielmus de Monte* Acuto (. Montacule) Comes 
Sarum, p priore & conventu monasterii de Bustle- 
sham (Bisham ),— 

Braye, 1 

Thamis piscaria, > reman’ idm Wilto. 

Cokeham maner, j 

Anno 1 Rich. II. 

Johannes Brocas,— 

Bray, un’ messuag’ & 62 acr’ terrh 

Anno 2 Bich. II. 

Johannes Brocas films Oliveri, Mil’,— 

Bray, 2 acr’ prat’. 

Anno 7 Bich. II. 

Johannes Brocas Miles, p cartam suam dedit Dno Begi 
Edwardo Tertio,— 

Braye, terr’ & ten’. 

Anno 10 Bich. II. 

Johannes Colney, & Jacobus Berney, placita inter 
eos,— 

Cokeham & Braye, sect* cur\ 

Anno 13 Bich. II. 

Johannes Torry de Bray pro Priore de Hurle {Hurley ),— 
Cokeham') quatuor messuag’, 140 acr’ terr’, 20 acr’ 
et > prati, 12 acr’ pastur’ reman’ eidm 
Braye, J Johi. 

Anno 17 Bich. II. 

Johannes Cyerewast, Chr et Katerina uxor ejus,— 

Braye, tres acr’, una roda terr’, et capella ihm, et 
unum messuag’, 60 ‘acr’ terr’, 20 acr’ pastur’, et 
sex acr’ bosci vocat Ermytage. (See HermiU 
reading and Bray Chaunlry.) 

Anno 20 Bich. II. 

Abbas et Conventus de Cirencestre,— 

Braye ecclia, cum uno messuag’ et una hida terre 
eidm ecclie pertin’ ut gleba. 

Anno 1 Henr’ IV. 

Bernard Brocas,— 

Bray maner’ redd it’. 

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Anno 7 Hen. VI. > . . 

Johanna, que fuit uxor Bernardi Brocas, Chivaler attmct 
tempore Hen. IV.,— 

Cokham & 1 Mancr membr ,_ 

Bray, j 
Anno 34 Hen. VI. 

Willielmus Brocas, Armiger,— 

Cokham & 

Bray Hundr\ 

Anno 1 Rich. III. 

Willielmus Brocas, Armiger,— 

Bray, sect* Hundr’. 


&rcount of flje I3rag ©Ijartttts, 

From the Chanty Commissioners' Reports for 1837, and 
other Sources. 

Bray School, or Cherry’s Charity. (See Bray.) 

Jesus Hospital. (See Bray.) 

Lucas’ hospital at woktngham. 

One poor person of Bray Parish is entitled to a place in 
this hospital, which is under the management of the Company 
of Drapers, London. 

There is now (1837) one poor person of this parish re¬ 
ceiving the benefit of the charity. He resided some time in 
the hospital, but at present lives at Holy port, receiving his 
allowance from the hospital. 

sir john norris’s charity. 

King James I., by letters patent bearing date Feb. 3, 1605, 
granted to Sir John Norris , Roger Pridis, and William Derson, 
and their heirs, all those piddles or parcels of ground lying and 
being in certain hamlets and tithings in the Parish of Bray, 
whereupon small cottages and other edifices were erected, con¬ 
taining on the whole, by estimation, 5 acres, and were in 
deed, or in reputation, lands assarted or purprestured within 
the parish of Bray and Forest of Windsor, or the perambula¬ 
tion thereof. 

By indenture dated 10 January, 6 James (1609), the said 


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Sir John Norris, for the charitable affection and care which 
he bore towards the poor inhabitants then dwelling and beino- 
within the said Parish of Bray, and for their better mainte^ 
nance and relief, and the maintenance and relief of such poor, 
impotent, and aged persons, as from time to time thereafter 
should be dwelling within the said parish, and to the intent 
that the poorest and most aged and impotent persons of the 
said parish should be provided for ever of houses and habitation, 
granted, aliened, enfeoffed, and confirmed unto William God¬ 
dard, William Hathorne, Thomas Westcott, and five others, 
and their heirs, all those little piddles or parcels of ground 
severally lying in certain hamlets and tithings of the Parish 
of Bray in the County of Berks, whereupon small cottages 
and other edifices were erected and built, containing in the 
whole, by estimation, 5 acres, and were in deed or in reputa¬ 
tion lands assarted, or purprestured within the said Parish of 
Bray and Forest of Windsor, or the perambulation thereof, 
then in the possession of 18 persons therein named, and also 
all gardens, &c.; all which premises were granted by the said 
letters patent of 3rd February, 3rd James, to Sir John 
Norris, Boger Pridis, and William Derson, and their heirs 
(which said Pridis and Derson being dead before the time 
of the present deed, the same came to the said Sir John 
Norris, by the right of survivorship), to hold to the said 
William Goddard and others, and their heirs, paying yearly 
to the King and his successors the yearly rent reserved by 
the said letters patent for the premises in the name of a fee- 
farm. 

By indenture dated 14th January, 1621, the said William 
Hawthorn and Thomas Westcott, surviving trustees, reciting 
the above indenture of 1609, granted the same premises to 
Thomas Wilcox, John Page, and six others, and their heirs, 
to hold the same to them and their heirs, as in the former 
deed, on trust, that they, the said trustees, their heirs and 
assigns, should from time to time thereafter permit and suffer 
such person and persons as at that time were possessors of the 
said cottages and other the premises during their lives, behaving 
themselves honestly and orderly, to dwell and inhabit therein; 
and that the said trustees should permit and suffer such other 
poor, aged, and impotent persons being inhabitants of the said 
parish as should thereafter be nominated and appointed after 
the death of any poor aged people then dwelling in any of 
them by the said trustees, and their heirs and assigns, and 
the churchwardens of the said parish for the time being, or 


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the more part of them, likewise to dwell and continue in the 
said cottages and houses during such time as the said trustees 
and the said churchwardens should think fit and convenient, 
so as the said cottages and houses should be and continue, and 
should be employed from time to time for ever thereafter, 
only for the benefit, relief, and maintenance of the poor aged 
and impotent people being inhabitants of the said parish, they, 
the said poor people, paying and discharging yearly the rents 
and fee-farm due and payable to the King’s Majesty, his heirs 
and successors, and power was given, that as often as six 
trustees should be dead, or depart from the parish, the two 
remaining trustees and six of the most substantial inhabitants 
of the parish of Bray, and the churchwardens of the said 
parish, or the greater number of them, should nominate, elect, 
and choose eight persons, inhabitants of the parish, to be 
feoffees in trust, to whom the property should be conveyed by 
surviving trustees. 

By indenture of feoffment, bearing date 1st September, 
1657, the said Thomas Wilcox, being the survivor of the last- 
mentioned trustees, conveyed and assigned the said premises 
unto Peregrine Wilcox, Humphrey Beckley, and seven others, 
and their heirs, upon the same trusts as they were granted by 
Sir John Norris. 

By an inquisition, taken under a Commission of Charitable 
Uses, bearing date 4th December, 1699, at Maidenhead, in 
the county of Berks, the 15th of July, 1700, the jury found 
the granting of the said letters patent, the deeds of the 10th 
January, 1609, 14th January, 1621, and 1st September, 1657, 
as above abstracted, and it was further found that the said 
Humphrey Beckley was the only surviving trustee named in 
the indenture of the 1st September, 1657, who ought to 
convey the said premises to eight substantial inhabitants of 
Bray, to be nominated as before mentioned, and that the 
cottages and premises so granted by the said Sir John Norris 
were then in the possession of eighteen persons therein men¬ 
tioned, who for the long and quiet possessions of themselves, 
and their ancestors, and those they claimed under and by the 
negligence of the last-mentioned trustees, claimed the same as 
their inheritance, some as heirs to the former possessors, and 
others for valuable considerations of money paid to some of 
the former possessors of the said premises, who had no other 
estates therein but for their lives under the said trustees, and 
that the then possessors all derived their title from, and 
claimed under, some of the persons named in the former deeds 


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to be then in tbe possession of the said premises, tlieir heirs 
or successors; and it was further found that the said cottages 
and premises were then in the possessions of the several 
persons therein mentioned, and were then subject to the said 
charity; and that an orchard, or parcel of land, then in the 
possession of Richard Bassett, was formerly granted to 
Richard Bassett, his father, by Thomas Wilcox and John 
Page, two of the trustees before mentioned, by lease bearing 
date the 8th day of January, 1655, for forty years, if the said 
Richard Bassett the father, and Elizabeth his wife, should so 
long live, at the yearly rent of 25., which said Elizabeth sur¬ 
vived her said husband, and died about fourteen years then 
since, and that the said Richard Bassett (the son) had been in 
possession since the death of the said Elizabeth, but had never 
paid the yearly rent of 25. 

On the finding of this inquisition it was decreed by the 
said Commissioners that the persons then in possession of the 
said lands should quit the possession thereof unto the said 
Humphrey Beckley, his heirs or assigns, except such of them 
as were poor, aged, and impotent persons, as the said Humphrey 
Beckley should think fit to continue therein, during their 
lives; that the said Humphrey Beckley, his heirs and assigns, 
and the churchwardens of the said parish of Bray for the time 
being, should from time to time, and as the said then pos¬ 
sessors, or any of them should die, or be turned out of pos¬ 
session by the said Humphrey Beckley, liis heirs or assigns, 
nominate and place other poor, aged, and impotent persons of 
the said parish to inhabit therein, so as the said cottages and 
houses should be employed for ever thereafter only for the 
benefit, relief, and maintenance of the poor, aged, and impo¬ 
tent people being inhabitants of the said parish, the said poor 
people discharging yearly the said rent and fee-farm due to 
the King's Majesty, his heirs and successors, according to the 
settlement thereof by the said Sir John Norris; and it was 
further decreed that the said Humphrey Beckley should convey 
the said premises to eight substantial inhabitants of the parish 
of Bray, to be nominated by the said Humphrey Beckley, and 
six substantial inhabitants of the said parish, together with 
the churchwardens and their heirs and assigns; and that 
the said Richard Bassett should pay unto the then church¬ 
wardens of the said parish 285. for fourteen years' arrears of 
the said yearly rent of 25., and 405. towards the costs of the 
decree 

By indenture dated 22 June, 1722, Simon Beckley, heir-at- 


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law of the said H. Beckley, conveyed the said premises to Sir 
John Werden, John Perryman, and others, and their heirs on 
the same trusts. 

In 1740, an information was filed in the Court of Chancery 
by the trustees in the name of the Attorney-General, to compel 
the then occupiers to deliver up the possession of the Charity 
Estates, when all or the greater number of them, without 
putting in any answer, agreed to attorn tenants to the trus¬ 
tees, and sign their respective attornments in a hook, which 
book is still in the possession of the churchwardens. 

By indentures of lease and release, dated 20th and 21st 
March, 1743, between Sir John Werden, Bart., and John 
Perryman, the only surviving or acting trustees for the 
charity thereinafter mentioned, of the one part, and Penyston 
Powney, John Woodwell, and six others, all of the parish of 
Bray (being persons nominated by the said Sir John Werden 
and John Perryman, and the churchwardens, and six sub¬ 
stantial inhabitants of the said parish, to be trustees for the 
said charity), of the other part, reciting the deed of Sir John 
Norris of 10 Jan., 1609, and that the said trust was then 
vested in the said Sir John Werden and John Perryman, and 
reciting that by the neglect of the trustees most of the pos¬ 
sessors of the said cottages and premises, by long enjoyment 
thereof, through such neglect, pretended to claim the same as 
their own inheritance; but in order to ascertain the said 
charity, a Commission of Charitable Uses issued in 1700, and 
a decree was made in favour of the charity, but no execution 
was taken out thereupon; and that several of the possessors 
and occupiers of the cottages and lands having suffered the 
cottages to fall to decay, were applied to to repair and rebuild 
the same, or to attorn tenants thereof to the trustees, but that 
all or most of them had refused so to do, pretending to hold 
the same to the prejudice of the charity, and contrary to the 
said decree, and that in Michaelmas Term, 1740, an informa¬ 
tion in the name of the Attorney-General was filed, to compel 
the said possessors and occupiers of the said cottages and lands 
to deliver up the possession thereof for the trusts aforesaid, and 
that all, or the major part of them, without putting in any 
answer thereto, submitted and agreed, by writing under their 
several hands, to attorn tenants thereof, pursuant to the 
prayer of the said bill, and acknowledged the said cottages and 
premises granted by the said Sir John Norris as aforesaid to 
be at the time of such attornments in the several occupations 
of eighteen persons therein mentioned, and that the buildings. 


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boundings, and situations of tbe several cottages and lands, 
and each last-named persons* possessions, were particularly set 
forth and described in a book for that purpose made, and each 
of their attornments signed thereto, and which book was then 
in the possession of the churchwardens of the said parish; and 
that it had been agreed that the same should for ever there¬ 
after remain in the hands of the churchwardens of the parish 
for the time being, for the better manifestation of the said 
submissions and attornments for the benefit of the said charity, 
and for the preventing the same to be lost or destroyed, it is 
witnessed that for the continuance of the trust, and in pur¬ 
suance of such submissions and attornments aforesaid, and at 
the request of the churchwardens and other principal inhabi¬ 
tants of the parish of Bray, the said Sir John Werden and 
John Perryman the elder granted, enfeoffed, and confirmed 
unto the said Penyston Powney and others, and their heirs, 
all the said cottages, houses, buildings, gardens, orchards, 
piddles, and parcels of ground, and all other the premises and 
appurtenances, to hold the same unto the said Penyston 
Powney and others, and their heirs, upon the trusts declared 
in the said abstracted deed of the said Sir John Norris, and 
with the same powers and provisions for appointing new 
trustees as before set forth. 

This conveyance was executed by John Perryman only; Sir 
John Werden survived John Perryman, but died without 
having executed the deed; John Woodwell was the survivor 
of the trustees named, but died without having made any new 
appointment. 

In April, 1812, a meeting was held at Bray of the principal 
inhabitants of the parish for the purpose of electing new 
trustees. This meeting was attended by William Woodwell, 
the heir-at-law of the said John Woodwell, and by the church¬ 
wardens, and six of the principal inhabitants of the said parish, 
when seven new trustees were appointed, it being considered 
that the said William Woodwell was already a trustee, and 
that consequently the whole number of eight trustees would 
be made up by a conveyance of the trust estates to such other 
persons, as trustees with the said William Woodwell. 

By indentures of lease and release, dated the 28th and 29th 
January, 1813, between George Harley Drummond, Esq., 
heir-at-law of the said Sir John Werden, of the first part, the 
said William Woodwell of the second part, and Zachariah 
Boult, John Woodwell, and five others, of the third part, re¬ 
citing the former deeds and proceedings and the facts attend- 


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ing the non-execution thereof, by Sir John Werden, and that 
the parties of the third part were appointed trustees by the 
said William Wood well, and the churchwardens, and some of 
the other inhabitants of Bray, and that G. H. Drummond, 
and William Wood well, had agreed to convey; it is witnessed 
that the said G. H. Drummond and W. Woodwell conveyed 
to the parties of the third part, and their heirs, the trust pre¬ 
mises upon the trusts of the said charity, the description of 
the premises being copied from the book of attornments before 
mentioned. 

The lease and release were executed by the said G. H. 
Drummond, but the other trustee, W. Woodwell, died with¬ 
out having executed, leaving the said John Woodwell (one of 
the last-named trustees) his heir-at-law, from whom a convey¬ 
ance of one moiety by lease and release, dated 25th and 26th 
Feb. 1813, and indorsed on the deed of the 28th and 29th 
Jan., 1813, was made to Cliff Ashmore, to the use of the 
before-mentioned seven trustees, their heirs and assigns, upon 
the trusts of the charity. 

Since the date of this conveyance of the original property 
an enclosure has taken place of the parish of Bray, and by 
the Award dated 2nd of May, 1817, the following allotments 
were made to the trustees of Sir John Norris’s Charities. 


Bray Award, 2nd May, 1817, 

To the Trustees of Sir John Norris’s Chanties . 

No. 222. One piece or parcel of land at Stud Green, con¬ 
taining Ir. 26p., bounded on the N. and W. by enclosures, in 
the occupation of Jonathan Selwood and John Barnet, and 
allotment to Richard Blay, on the E. by the private road No. 
21, and on the S. by inclosures of Chas. Fuller, and James 
File, and the fences whereof on the E. and W. sides, are to be 
made and for ever maintained by the said trustees, and their 
successors. 

No. 251. And also one other piece or parcel of land at 
Moneyrow Green, containing lr. 24p., bounded on the N. by 
an allotment to John Tarsey, on the E. by the public road 
No. 2, on the S. by an allotment to John Cove, and on the 
W. by a cottage and garden in the occupation of William 
Gomme, and the fences whereof on the N. and E. sides are to 
be made and for ever maintained by the said trustees and their 
successors. 


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No. 472. And also one other piece or parcel of land in Pea¬ 
cock Lane, containing Ir. 26p., bounded on the N. by the 
tithe allotment, on the E. by the private road No. 47, on the 
S. by an allotment to Edmund Watling, and on the W. by an 
enclosure of the same E. Watling, and the fences whereof, on 
the N. and E. sides, are to be made and for ever maintained 
by the said trustees and their successors. 

No. 429. And also one other piece or parcel of land on 
Braywood Common, containing lr. 6p., bounded on the N. by 
enclosures in the occupation of John Gutteridge, on the E. by 
an allotment to Thomas Cock, on the S. by the private road 
No. 42, and on the W. by an allotment to Mary Hudson, and 
the fences whereof on the S. and W. sides are to be made and 
for ever maintained by the said trustees and their successors. 

No. 432. And also one other piece or parcel of land on 
Braywood Common, containing lr. 24p., bounded on the N. 
by an allotment to Henry Coombs, on the E. and S. by en¬ 
closures in the occupation of Richard Martin, and on the W. 
by the Hawthorn road, and the fences whereof, on the N. and 
W. sides, are to be made and for ever maintained by the said 
trustees and their successors. 

In addition to the five above allotments made expressly to 
the Trustees , the three following allotments were made to the 
parties named, who, at the time of the enclosure, had no claim 
except in right of cottages, &c., held by them, parcels of Sir 
John Norrises charity lands. 

To William Clayton, No. 150. One piece or parcel of land 
situate at Cox Green, containing 29 poles, bounded on the 
N.E. and S.E. by public roads, on the S.W. by an allotment 
to Thomas Groom, and on the N.W. by an allotment to 
William and Charles Turner, and the fences whereof, on the 
N.E. and S.E. sides, are to be made and for ever maintained by 
the said William Clayton, his heirs and assigns. 

To Thomas Groom, No. 153. And also one other piece 
or parcel of land situate at Cox Green, containing 2r. lip., 
bounded on the N.E. by allotments to W illiam and Charles 
Turner and William Clayton: on the S.E. by the public road 
No. 4; on the S.W. by an allotment to Richard Powney, 
and on the N.W. by an allotment to W illiam Spurrit, and 
the fences whereof, on the N.E. and S.E. sides, are to be 
made and for ever maintained by the said Thomas Groom, 
his heirs and assigns. 

IJnto Richard Ileadington, No. 442, one piece or parcel of 


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land situate on Braywood Common, containing 34 poles, 
bounded on the N. by enclosures of the said Richard 
Headington, on the S.E. by the private road No. 42, and 
on the W. by the private road No. 43, and the fences, &c., on 
the W. and S.E. sides are to be made and for ever maintained 
by the said Richard Headington, his heirs and assigns. 

The charity estates had come into the possession of many 
persons not objects of the charity, and at this period, by the 
direction of the trustees, a terrier and description was taken 
by Mr. Abraham Boult, surveyor, of all the cottages and lands, 
then consisting of 19 tenements or parcels, and all the occu¬ 
piers were called upon to acknowledge the right of the trustees, 
and attorn tenants to them. In April, 1813, several of the 
occupiers signed such acknowledgments at the foot of that 
part of the terrier containing the description of the premises 
respectively held by them, and were continued in possession, 
agreeing to pay a nominal yearly rent, being persons deemed 
proper objects of the charity; there still, however, remained 
several who refused to come into any terms, and who were 
not objects of the charity, and the Act of 52 Geo. III., c. 101, 
having then lately passed, a petition was presented in 1814 by 
the trustees to the Court of Chancery, wherein it was prayed 
that the said estates should be declared to belong to the said 
charity, and to be vested in the petitioners upon the trusts 
thereof, and that the several persons therein mentioned to be 
in the occupation of the said premises, should be decreed to 
deliver possession of the premises to the petitioners, except 
such of the said occupiers as the petitioners should deem proper 
objects of the charity, and that it should be referred to one of 
the Masters of the Court to approve of a scheme for letting 
the said premises or so much thereof as should not appear to 
be then adapted to the purposes of the charity, and for em¬ 
ploying the rents and profits thereof upon the trusts of the 
said charity, and in defraying the expenses then already in¬ 
curred or thereafter to be incurred; and that the costs of the 
application should be paid the petitioners by the persons therein 
mentioned, who had rendered such application necessary by 
disputing the right of the petitioners on behalf of the charity, 
or that the same might be paid out of the first profits from 
'the said charity estates. 

On the hearing this petition was dismissed as against Lucy 
Hyde, one of the parties, without costs; and as to the other 
parties, an order of reference was made to the Master to in¬ 
quire whether the estates claimed by the petitioners were the 


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charity estates, and the consideration of all further directions 
and ol the costs was reserved. 

The petition, however, was subsequently dismissed altogether 
by the Lord Chancellor, who stated that it being a case of ad¬ 
verse claims, the court had not jurisdiction by petition, under 
the late Act of Parliament, but he directed that the costs of 
the petition, and all subsequent proceedings, as between soli¬ 
citor or client, should be retained out of the rents of the * 
charity estates. 

Upwards of 350£. was expended in obtaining new trust 
deeds, and in law proceedings, and as the property produced 
no income, being occupied as directed by the donor rent-free, 
no advantage could be derived from the Chancellor's order as 
to costs which were to be retained from the rents of the charity 
estates ; the expense fell therefore entirely upon the trustees, 
and principally upon Mr. John Woodwell, who, by the death 
of Mr. Zuchariah Boult in 1832, became the only surviving 
trustee. By a parish order in 1814, a portion of the costs was 
defrayed by the overseers, but objections being made, it was 
repaid by the trustees. 

There are eighteen parcels, besides the allotments made 
in respect thereof, the whole of which are in the parish of 
Bray. 

Redstone. —No. 1 (2r. Op.). An old enclosure adjoining 
Redstone Farm, formerly an orchard called Fellows Orchard, 
afterwards Absalom's Orchard, occupied successively by Aid- 
worth, Parmenter, Bolt, and now by Cole and Hayward, as 
tenants to Mr. Hercy. 

Bray wood. —No. 2 (la. Or. Op.). A cottage, garden, orchard 
and plot of meadow at Bray wood-side, formerly occupied by 
Whitehand, and afterwards by Richard Martin and Simon 
Bartlett, the former of whom in 1799 agreed to pay 5s. 
per year, and in 1813, attorned to the new trusteees, and paid 
6d. per year for five years. This property is now held by the 
relict of Joseph Mortimer, and is tenanted by Mr. Thomas 
Watkins, of White Waltham. Buildings have been pulled 
down, and alterations have been made both in the existing 
buildings and boundary. 

No. 2a. —There was a small parcel of land containing one 
rood (part of the garden of No. 2), formerly occupied by 
Simon Bartlett, and for which he paid in 1799 a guinea and 
a half per annum. He also held the remainder of the allot¬ 
ment No. 432, which was afterwards added to it, and for the 


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whole he then paid three guineas a year, until he was 
appointed to the almshouse in 1828. 

On that occasion the trustees let this and another parcel by 
tender, and William Folly took what Bartlett had held, at the 
rent of 4/. per annum, but having got into possession, he paid 
rent for it only till 1831. He has some little property of his 
own, and is not a fit object for the charity. It has since 
passed to his daughter, Mrs. Butler, of Warfield, and is 
tenanted by Bichard Ranee, of Bray. 

No. 3. A cottage and garden at Bray wood-side, two small 
orchards, and a piece of land, containing in the whole about 
la. 2r. Formerly held by one Gregory, afterwards by John 
Gutteridge, who attorned to new trustees in 1813; afterwards 
of Mrs. Hutt, a relation of Gutteridge's, who was succeeded 
by her son Robert, who also held the allotment No. 429, con¬ 
taining Ir* 6p. It is now in the possession of Mrs. Mor¬ 
timer, and tenanted (with No. 2) by Thomas Watkins, of 
White Waltham. House and buildings have been pulled down, 
and alterations lately made in the fences and boundary. 

Nos. 4 and 5. Three little meadows, now called Thorns, 
situate at Braywoodside, containing about an acre; formerly 
called Thorn's Orchard, and Eale's, or Alice's Plot, and 
whereon two cottages formerly stood, then in the possession 
of John Cutler, and afterwards of Thomas Cock, whose 
daughter brought this property in marriage to William 
Hearne, from whom it was purchased by Arthur Hubbard, of 
Bray, who now resides on the premises, and has erected 
houses and buildings thereon. 

No. 5 a. A parcel of land at Bray wood side, on which a 
cottage formerly stood, containing by estimation one acre. 
Formerly in the possession of Widow East, and afterwards of 
Richard Headington, who was placed therein by the over¬ 
seers and churchwardens. Headington refused to attorn in 
1813; he also sold the allotment No. 442, containing 34p., 
made in respect of the above. This property is now in the 
possession of Mrs: Mortimer, relict of Joseph Mortimer, who 
purchased it of Headington, and is tenanted by Thomas 
Watkins and John Headington. Held with Nos. 2 and 3. 

Touchin End .—No. 6. A cottage and garden, containing 
about one rood. Formerly in the possession of Richard Hol¬ 
loway, afterwards of John Stiles, one of whose daughters 
brought this property in marriage to Thomas Stevens, from 
whom it was purchased by Charles Targett, who has taken 
down the old house, and erected three tenements thereon. 


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In December, 1799, Holloway agreed to pay 20s. a year. 
Stiles attorned in 1813, and paid §d. a year for five years. 

Money-row Green. —No. 7. A cottage on the west side of 
the Green, containing about two roods. Held in 1700 by 
Samuel Holmes, afterwards by Thomas Gomme, who was 
succeeded by William Gomme, from whom it was purchased 
by Wheatley. It is now in the possession of Mrs. Eliza 
Wheatley, of Swallowfield or Shinfield, near Reading, and is 
tenanted by Henry Illsley. 

William Gomme attorned for his father in 1813, and paid 
6^. a year for five years. W. Gomme also held an allotment, 
No. 251, containing lr. 24p. There was a little bit of land, 
about 8 or 9 poles, at the south end of the cottage premises, 
originally cribbed from the common by T. Gomme. This 
was sold by Will. Gomme—not part of Sir John Norris’s 
land. 

Sturt Greens —No. 8. A parcel of land, situate at Bourn 
Bridge, at the end of Sturt Green, containing about two roods, 
on which a house was erected about sixty years ago. In 1699 
this was held by Thomas Cobham, and then was called a 
cottage and orchard, afterwards of Ann Harbour. A Mr. 
Tyrrell built the house, which afterwards became the property 
of a Mr. Penny, who bequeathed it to Mrs. Hyde, party to 
the suit in 1814. Purchased of H. Walter by Sir Robert 
Sidney, who has made additions to the buildings. 

No. 9. A double cottage at Sturt Green, with a large 
garden and orchard to each, containing together two roods. 
This was anciently the Pest-house, and formerly in the occu¬ 
pation of Thomas Johnson; afterwards divided, and occupied 
by Jonathan Selwood and Richard Blay. Jonathan Selwood, 
in 1799, agreed to pay 10$. per annum for that part of the 
Pest-house in which he lived; the S el woods were put in by 
Mr. Sewell, then overseer. It is now occupied by James 
Sexton’s widow, the daughter of Jonathan Selwood. George 
Barnett (son of Michael George Barnett, who paid Qd. a year 
for three years, and who was put in by Mr. Wood well, the 
trustee, on the cottage being given up by Blay when pro¬ 
ceedings were threatened against him) took possession on the 
death of his father, and has occupied without paying any rent. 
On the 13th April, 1835, George Barnett purchased of Pascoe 
Grenfell, Esq., a quit rent of 4 d. per annum, in consideration 
of 8 s. 4 d. Mrs. Sexton and Barnett occupy between them 
the allotment. No. 222, containing lr. 26p.; it has been laid 
to the two gardens. 


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SIR JOHN NORRIS S CHARITY. 


Cox Green. —No. 10. A cottage and orchard, containing 
about la. 2r. Formerly in the possession of John Stag; after, 

of William Miles, whose widow married-Clayton. Anne 

Clayton, in 1799, agreed to pay 40s. a year for the premises, 
and William Miles attorned in 1813. It is now in the pos¬ 
session of John Carter, who married the daughter of William, 
the son of the said Anne Clayton. 

An allotment, No. 150, containing 29p., situate at the 
corner of Cox Green, was set out to William Clayton in 1817. 
Clayton sold the allotment to Samuel Morris, who built two 
cottages on the land, although cautioned by Mr. Woodwell 
not to do so. Mrs. Clayton paid 6d. a year to the time of her 
death, in 1832. The allotment (150) is in the possession of 
Samuel Morris, of Eton, Bucks, and tenanted by White and 
Wallis. 

No. 11. A cottage, garden, orchard, &c., and a close of 
arable, containing altogether about 2a. 2r., at Cox Green, 
formerly in the occupation of Edward Johnson, and afterwards 
of Thomas Johnson, who attorned 2nd December, 1799, and 
agreed to pay 45s. per annum for the above premises. Thomas 
Johnson and Sarah his wife, by indentures of lease and re¬ 
lease, 11th and 12th August, 1807, granted and released the 
above-mentioned premises to Thomas Groom, in consideration 
of 160^., and covenanted to levy a fine in the Court Baron of 
the Manor of Bray. It is now the property of William 
Howard, an exciseman, and is tenanted by James Grove, of 
Bray. With this land is also held the allotment No. 153, 
containing 2r. lip., made in respect of the above. 

No. 12. A cottage and parcel of land, containing about an 
acre (described in old list of 1699 as a cottage, small barn, 
and little plot of ground), then held by Matthew Sawyer. 
In 1799, held by Mary Turner, who agreed to pay 20$. a year 
for the premises; at one time held by Balph Turner, after¬ 
wards by Thomas or William Turner, and now by George 
Turner. A part has passed to Bichard Lovegrove, of the 
Bear Inn, Maidenhead. There are two cottages built on this 
part, now let to P. Webb and Thomas Nightingale. 

No. 13. A cottage and small parcel of land at Cox Green, 
containing about three roods. In 1699, described as a cottage 
and close on east side, containing three roods, then in the 
occupation of Bichard Franklyn. In 1799, held by Francis 
Langley, who agreed to pay 2Os. a year for it; afterwards in 
the possession of William Stevens, and then of Henry Newell, 
who was succeeded by his son Henry. It has since changed 
hands. 



1)R. CHALLONER’s GIET. 


177 


Boyn Kill .—No. 14. A plot of ground, whereon formerly 
stood a cottage, situate at Boyn Hill, containing one rood. 
Described in 1700 as having small elms on the land, formerly in 

the possession of John Jackson, afterwards of-Nash, and 

purchased by Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., some years ago. Tenanted 
by William Knapp. 

Woolley Green. —No. 15. A parcel of land called Brown’s 
Plot, situate at Woolley Hill, whereon a cottage formerly 
stood, containing three roods. And a blacksmith’s shop, 
formerly in the possession of James Taylor, also of William 
Eadle, and afterwards of Henry Pincke Lee, Esq., now in the 
possession of his son Captain John Lee. In 1699 said to be 
a close of land formerly called Brown’s Close. 

Tittle Bag-row , or Tickle Back-row. —No. 16. Two cottages 
and a piece of land called Barnard’s Plot, containing about 
one acre. Adjoining and part of an enclosure of Mr. Brown, 
formerly in the occupation of Charles Brooks and Francis 
Norcot, and afterwards of Thomas Brown, Esq., and adjoining 
and part of an enclosure of the said T. Brown, Esq. 

No. 17. Another piece of ground whereon stood a cottage, 
at Tittle-row, containing by estimation about two roods, 
formerly in the occupation of Mary Basset, widow, and after¬ 
wards of Thomas Brown, Esq. 

No. 18. Another piece of land, on which formerly stood a 
cottage, at Tittle-row, and containing about two roods. 
Formerly in the possession of James Gom, who pulled down 
the cottage, afterwards of James Hudson, and then of Henry 
Newell, and afterwards of Thomas Brown, Esq. 

Nos. 16, 17, 18. All these three last preceding parcels of 
land and three cottages have been purchased by Mr. Thomas 
Fleet, of Mr. Thomas Brown, of Bray. The whole of the 
premises purchased by Mr. Fleet consist of about ten acres of 
land and three cottages. None of the cottages stand on any 
of the allotments of land, but an old enclosure. Mr. Flint 
died a few years since, having bequeathed this property to his 
widow, who is still living. 

No. 19. The allotment in Peacock-lane, No. 472, originally 
held by Mr. Zachariah Boult, has passed from his son William 
Boult, to William Simmbuds, of Fifield. 

DR. CHALLONER’S GIFT. 

Robert Challoner, D.D., Pastor of the church of Amersham, 
Bucks, who died 1st May, 1621, by his will devised to Robert 
Fincher and his heirs, after the death of his wife Christina, 

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178 CHARITIES—FINCHER’S AND WHITFIELD^. 


his messuage and lands, &c., in East Oakley, Fifield, and in 
Bray, also a farm in Alt wood in Bray (See Monument of Thomas 
little ), provided that out of the lands in Oakley every year, 
his heirs should pay at Lady Day and Michaelmas, or in thirty 
days after, by even portions, unto the poor of Windsor, 6/., and 
also to the poor of East Oakley and Bray 40.9., to four of the 
godliest poor, to be chosen and changed yearly by his heirs, 
the Minister of Bray, and the Churchwardens; and also out 
of the said lands 40<s. to some godly preacher, to preach six 
sermons on six Sabbaths in Bray Church, and to be chosen by 
his heirs and the Dean of Windsor, and that the latter should 
give a certificate of such sermons having been preached. 

The vicar receives annually about Easter from Mr. Robert 
Mason the owner of the property in Oakley charged with the 
payments, 21., which he gives to two poor people of Oakley, 
and two of Bray Town, named in vestry. They are changed 
every year. 

He receives at the same time 21., which was formerly paid 
to the late Rev. G. Welford, who was appointed to preach the. 
six sermons by the Dean of Windsor and Mr. Mason; a formal 
certificate being given of the same. 

FINCHERS GIFT. 

An entry in an old parish book states that Mrs. Alice 
Eincher bequeathed to the parish of Bray 10/., the interest 
to be distributed at Midsummer yearly, at the discretion of 
the Churchwardens, amongst the poor inhabitants of Oakley 
Green. In the returns of 1786, this bequest is mentioned as 
vested in the Churchwardens, and the amount was probably 
paid over to them, as the sum of 10s. has been for a long time 
received from the Churchwardens' account by the. name of 
Mrs. Fincher's Gift. It has usually been distributed in bread. 
In 1836, the payment was objected to by the Churchwardens, 
as an unfit payment to be made out of the church-rates. 

Whitfield's charity. 

Richard Whitfield, Esq., by his last will charged his estate 
at Wheatley, in Oxfordshire, with the payment of 20s. a-piece 
annually to four poor people of the parish of Bray, living 
within the Corporation of Maidenhead, at the disposal of such 
person who should be in possession of the manor of Ives. W. 
Stephens, Esq., now resides there, and from the time of the 
purchase has acted as the trustee of this Charity, as it appears 
the several previous owners have done. 


CHARITIES—LAUD’S AND SIR W. PAUL’S. 179 

The deeds distinctly state the annual rent-charge on the 
estate at Wheatley to be 6^. 105. The payment has been cal¬ 
culated at 5 1. 12 ^. per annum, the land-tax being 185 ., this 
making the total U. 1 05 . 

Since 1830, Mr. Stephens has continued to distribute this 
charity amongst poor persons of Maidenhead, chiefly widows, 
in sums of from 25. to 105. each, many of them being recom¬ 
mended by the clergyman. 

ARCHBISHOP laud’s CHARITY. 

The Parish of Bray is entitled to send a boy, in each of two 
successive years, on the 18th October, selected by the Vestry, 
to Beading, when he receives a premium from the Corporation 
to be bound apprentice. The third year no boy is sent, the 
funds being appropriated to another object. 

sir william Paul’s charity. 

Sir William Paul, by will dated 14th April, 1684, left to 
the poor of the parish of Bray, the yearly sum of 5 l. to be 
paid out of his messuage and lands thereto belonging, which 
he lately purchased of Thomas Page, gentleman, lying in 
Bray, called Kimbers; and he ordered that such of his relations 
as should be in possession of his estate and resident in the 
parish of Bray, should yearly, a fortnight before Christmas, 
pay and distribute the said 5 1. amongst so many of the poor 
of the said parish as should be of the Communion of the 
Church of England, as they should think most fit; and in 
case of non-residence of his heirs, that then the minister of 
the parish of Bray for the time being, and the schoolmaster 
therein, should receive the said 5 1., and distribute it to such 
poor as they should think most fit; and if the said 5 L should 
remain unpaid at Christmas, then that the Churchwardens 
and overseers of the said parish should have power of entry 
and distress, and should pay the said yearly rent, and all 
arrears, to the minister and schoolmaster, to be distributed in 
manner before mentioned. 

This rent-charge of 5 1. is now paid by Bobert Harvey, Esq., 
of Langley Park, the owner of Kimbers in Oakley Green. It 
is received by the vicar, and the amount given *away to poor 
people of the parish in clothing. 

This annuity was unpaid for fifty-nine years previous to 
1795, when Lord le Despenser, owner of the estate charged, 
paid the sum of 309£. 105. for arrears, together with a year’s 

n 2 


180 


LADY PENYSTOls’s CHARITY. 


interest, upon a bond given for the payment of tlie same. 
This money was recovered by Mr. Townley Ward, and now 
produces 5/. 16s. 2d. half-yearly, which is carried to the other 
fund, and disposed of in clothing in the same manner. (1837.) 

[The sums arising from Sir William Paul's charity are now 
added to the “ General Fund” 1861.] 

LADY PENYSTON's CHARITY. 

By indenture, dated 25th April, 1709, Sir William Paul, 
in consideration of 100/., granted to Dame Mary Penyston, 
formerly wife of Sir Will. Paul, of Braywick, deceased, her 
heirs and assigns, a yearly rent-charge of 5/., payable out of 
the messuage and lands thereunto belonging, known by the 
name of Kembers, which had been previously charged with a 
similar payment by the will of the said Sir Will. Paul, de¬ 
ceased, yearly on Lady Day, in the porch of the parish church 
of Bray, with power of distress in case the same should remain 
unpaid for fifteen days. The said Dame Mary Penyston cove¬ 
nanted for herself, her heirs, &c., to stand seised of the same 
annuity, in trust, for putting out one boy apprentice every two 
years; to be nominated on Easter Monday, to such persons as 
should be chosen by the Minister and Churchwardens; such 
boy to be born of parents of the Church of England, born in 
the hamlet of Braywick, at the nomination of the said Dame 
Mary Penyston, and after her death, at the nomination of the 
said Sir Will. Paul, and his heirs and assigns, residing in the 
then dwelling-house of the said Sir William Paul; and if no 
person should reside therein, or if such person should neglect 
or refuse to nominate, the Minister and Churchwardens should 
nominate such boy qualified as aforesaid. Provided always, if 
any such boy should be placed out as apprentice for a less sum 
than 10/., then the overplus should be paid to the parents of 
the said boy. And it was further agreed that the said sum of 
5/. should be paid every two years into the hands of the 
Minister and Churchwardens of the said parish of Bray, and 
they should give a receipt for the same, which receipt should 
be a sufficient discharge to the said Sir William Paul, his heirs 
and assigns. 

The sum of 5/. is also paid annually by Kobert Harvey, 
Esq., and every third year an apprentice is bound out with 
the sum of 15/. from the parish of Bray. 


CHARITIES—BIDLESON’s AND POOLERS. 181 


bidleson's charity. 

Mr. John Bidleson, by will about the year 1763, bequeathed 
to the overseers of the parish of Bray and their successors 
200 /., to be placed in such securities as they should think 
proper, the interest to be applied and distributed in bread and 
meat to such poor inhabitants of the parish of Bray as they 
should think fit objects of the charity. 

This legacy produced 335/. stock in the Three per Cent. 
Consols. The dividends, amounting to 10/. Is., are received 
by the overseers, and the amount is distributed yearly in bread 
and meat to the poor of the parish. 

FUEL ALLOTMENT. 

By the award made on the enclosure of the parish of Bray 
in 1817, there is awarded unto the vicar, churchwardens, and 
overseers, for the use of the poor of the parish, a piece or 
parcel of land situate in Old Field, containing 6a. 2r. 16p., 
bounded as therein described. 

This allotment was made in lieu of a right which the poor 
of the parish had of cutting furze on Maidenhead Thicket, and 
collecting cowdung to dry for fuel. 

This land is let to Mrs. Homan, as yearly tenant, at the 
rent of 13/. per annum. The rent is paid to the church¬ 
wardens, and laid out by them in coals, which are given by 
tickets to poor people, in quantities from a bushel to a 
bushel and a half, and divided among upwards of two hundred 
families. 

poole’s charity. 

Mrs. Margaret Poole, about the year 1641, gave the sum of 
200 /. to be laid out in lands, the profits thereof to be applied 
in the purchase of cloth, to be distributed amongst the poor 
of the corporation of Maidenhead. 

The property purchased with the said sum of 200/. is situate 
in the parish of Wargrave, Berks, and consists of about twenty 
acres of land, known by the name of “ Bare,” alias “ Beare 
Innings.” The annual rent of the land is 17/., one-third of 
which is distributed amongst such poor of the corporation as 
reside within the parish of Bray; the remainder, as the will 
of Margaret Poole directs, is given to the poor of the corpora¬ 
tion residing in the parish of Cookham. 


182 


CHARITIES—DAVIS’S AND RIXMAN’s. 


DAVISES CHARITY. 

Charles Davis, of St. James's, Westminster, by will bearing 
date 12th July, 1716, devised all his freehold estate and premises 
at Maidenhead to the overseers of Cookham and Bray in trust 
for the use and benefit of the poor inhabitants of the town of 
Maidenhead not receiving alms from the said town or parishes; 
and he willed that the clear profits of the said estate, after 
deducting for taxes, repairs, and other incidental charges, be 
once in every year divided amongst such poor inhabitants, at 
the discretion of the said overseers and the ministers or curate 
of Maidenhead Chapel, on the same day of the month that he 
should happen to decease. And he willed that there should 
be yearly allowed out of the said estate on that day to the 
Minister of Maidenhead Chapel 10s. for a sermon to be there 
annually preached to the poor inhabitants, and that the over¬ 
seers should also take to themselves 5s. a piece for a bottle of 
wine and a breakfast together on that day; and in default 
of performance of the trust aforesaid according to his true 
meaning, the testator devised all his said estates in the county 
of Berks to his own right heirs for ever. 

By indenture dated 1st March, 1811, the premises belonging 
to this charity were demised by the overseers of the parishes 
of Cookham and Bray to William Burnham, bookseller, of 
Maidenhead, who on the 5th March, 1812, assigned them to 
George Wade Whetton. The rent received [15£] is divided 
between the overseers of Cookham and Bray, for the benefit 
of the poor persons of their respective parishes residing within 
the limits of the Corporation of Maidenhead. It is distributed 
in money in sums varying from 2s. 6^. to 6s. or 7s., according 
to the number of children. Widows receive the larger sum. 
The sum of 10s. is paid to the incumbent of Maidenhead, and 
a sermon is preached at the chapel on the 11th of November 
annually, when the distribution is made at the vestry, 5s. 
being paid to each of the overseers. 

rixman's charity. 

By indenture bearing date 20 th July, 1628, between Geoffry 
White of the one part, and Simon Winch and fourteen others, 
reciting that Mary, late wife of John Lane, sometime wife and 
widow of John Bixman, did in her widowhood purchase a cot¬ 
tage in Bray, near Boyn Hill, and that by her will she ap¬ 
pointed 4*1. 10s. arising out of the profits thereof yearly to be 
paid to the charitable uses following—viz., that the parties 


RIXMAN S CHARITY. 


183 


stated therein should pay to the churchwardens and overseers 
of the poor of the parish of Bray, at Michaelmas and Lady 
Day, 40s. by equal portions, that the greater number of them 
should once in three years, with 4 1. thereof, put forth two 
poor children born in lawful wedlock, dwelling in the parish 
of Bray, and not in the town of Maidenhead , and should em¬ 
ploy the other 40s. of the said three years’ profit, towards the 
apparelling the said poor children; and concerning the other 
50s. residue of the said yearly profits; that they that had the 
estate should pay the warden, hridgemasters, and burgesses of 
the town of Maidenhead to the intent that the greater number 
of them, whereof the warden and hridgemasters should be 
part, should once within three years, with 4 1. thereof, put out 
two poor children as aforesaid, dwelling within the town of 
Maidenhead and Corporation thereof, and the other 40s. for 
apparelling them, and the other 30s. residue of the said yearly 
profit, to be employed,—20s. for a dinner at the town of 
Maidenhead for the warden, hridgemasters, and burgesses, and 
for the churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Bray, 
every third year when they should meet about placing out the 
said poor children, and that the residue of the profit, if it 
should be worth more than 4 1. 10s., she willed to the said 
Geoffry White. Now the said Geoffry White, in consideration 
of 15/., and discharging the trust left in him, and that the 
charitable uses might be performed, hath resigned his estate 
wholly. 

Another deed made 10th June, 15 CharlesI., between Martha 
Brost and Lawrence Brost, her son, and John Bockall and 
five others, granted a close containing one acre lying near 
Boyn Hill, one-half of the profits to be employed upon the 
poor of the town of Maidenhead, and the other to the poor of 
the parish of Bray* in such manner as expressed in the deed 
of the said Geoffry White. 

The entire management of this charity has devolved upon 
the Corporation of Maidenhead. By the award of the Com¬ 
missioners for dividing, allotting, and enclosing that portion 
of the parish of Bray called Braywick, bearing date 1st March, 
1787, there was allotted to the trustees of the charity left by 
Mary Rixman to the poor of Bray and Maidenhead, a plot of 
land situate near King’s Pits, containing la. Or. 24p., bounded 
on the S. by the public road from Maidenhead to Shoppen- 
hangers. > . 

This allotment was made in lieu of the 24 acres in Dun- 

mead. 


184 


rixman’s charity. 


The cottage and land, containing about four acres, are now 
[1837] let to Mr. Thomas Smith as yearly tenant, at the rent 
of 28^. per annum. 

By the award of the Commissioners of the Bray Inclosure, 
there is allotted to the trustees of Bixman’s Charity, a parcel 
of land, No. 179, situate at Boyn Hill, containing 35 perches, 
hounded N. and W. by public roads; E. by enclosures of the 
said trustees, and on the S. by an allotment to Eliza Arrow; 
and also another parcel of land situate at Boyn Hill aforesaid. 
No. 184 in the map, containing 2r. 3p., bounded N. by an 
allotment to the trustees of the poor of Brightwell; N.E., of 
Pascoe Grenfell, Esq.; S.E., by an allotment for gravel, and 
S.W. by a private road. 

Two cottages have been built by the trustees, within a few 
years, on the last-mentioned allotment in the parish of Bray, 
one of which is let, with part of the land, to Thomas Kent as 
yearly tenant, at 4 1. per annum, and the other, with the re¬ 
mainder of the land, to-Langley, at 5 1. per annum. 

The particular directions contained in the trust deed as to 
the division of the rent, are not now observed; but the whole 
is expended in putting out apprentices belonging to the parish 
of Bray. The vicar of Bray, and churchwardens, occasionally 
recommend boys from the village part of the parish, and those 
put out in the town of Maidenhead are taken chiefly from 
the National School. The boys have been bound out of the 
parish when opportunity offers. The premiums are \hl. gene¬ 
rally, all paid down, and the master boards and clothes the 
boy. 

On the 27th November, 1835, there was a balance in hand 
on account of this charity of 111. 8$. 6d, 



185 


local Vallate- 

THE VICAR OF BRAY. 

The author of this celebrated composition is said to have 
been an officer in Colonel Fuller’s regiment in the time of 
George I. 

“ In good King Charles’s golden days. 

When loyalty had no harm in’t, 

A zealous High Churchman I was, 

And so I got preferment. 

To teach my flock I never miss’d 
Kings were by God appointed, 

And they are damned who dare resist, 

Or touch the Lord’s anointed. 

Chorus —And this is law I will maintain, 
Until my dying day, sir, 

That whatsoever king shall reign, 
I’ll be the Vicar of Bray, sir. 

u When Royal James obtained the throne, 

And Popery grew in fashion, 

The penal laws I hooted down, 

And read the Declaration; 

The Church of Rome I found would fit 
Full well my constitution; 

And I had been a Jesuit, 

But for the Revolution. 

Chorus —And this, &c. 

“ When William, our Deliverer, came 
To heal the nation’s grievance. 

Then I turned cat-in-pan again. 

And swore to him allegiance. 

Old principles I did revoke, 

Set conscience at a distance; 

Passive obedience was a joke, 

A jest was non-resistance. 

Chorus —And this, &c. 

« When glorious Anne became our Queen, 

The Church of England’s glory, 

Another face of things was seen. 

And I became a Tory. 


186 


LOCAL BALLADS. 


Occasional conformist’s case— 

I damned suph moderation; 

And thought the Church in danger was 
By such prevarication. 

Chorus —And this, &c. 

“ When George in pudding-time came o’er. 

And moderate men looked big, sir, 

My principles I changed once more, 

And so—became a Whig, sir. 

And thus preferment I procured 
From our Faith’s Great Defender, 

And almost every day adjured 
The Pope and the Pretender. 

Chorus —For, &c. • 

“ The illustrious House of Hanover, 

And Protestant Succession, 

By these 1 lustily will swear. 

While they can keep possession: 

For in my faith and loyalty 
I never once will falter. 

But George my king shall ever he— 

Except the times do alter.” 

Chorus —For, &c. 

THE KING AND SQUIRE CHERRY. 

In Hearne’s MS. Diaries, dated July 11th, 1731, he wrote: 
“ At Brick-bridge our Princes frequently came at the time of 
Hunting in Windsor Forest. A little way from this bridge 
was a very large pleasant oak, said to he the biggest in Eng¬ 
land, called ‘ Nan’s Oak,’ because tradition reported that King 
James’s first queen, Q. Anne, was much delighted with it; 
that she sickened under it; and some say, this sickness proved 
mortal. The tree was cut down in the beginning of King 
James’s [the Second’s] reign (to the no small resentment of 
the country people) by order of William Cherry, Esq., father 
of, but of different principles from, my best friend, Mr. Francis 
Cherry.”—(T. Hearne.) 

“ Cherry planted the Hawthorn tree near to Brick-bridge, 
And wronged the poor people of their privilege. 

He cut down the oak-tree, where Queen Anne did dine, 
And said of the common, f All this shall be mine.’ 


local ballads. 


187 


“ White Waltham was troubled, their common ta'en in; 
So quick they resolved to make suit to the king. 

'Twas one Master John Berry, who at Windsor did live. 
That direct to the king their petition did give. 


Lg one day very merry, 

?’ They said, f 'Twas Squire 


’ Said the king, when huntin r 
‘ Who took in this common r 
Cherry/ 

f Then pray/ quoth the king, f why not throw it out ? 
It is a great wrong to my subjects no doubt/ 


“ They answered the king, f That we dare not pursue, 
Cherry is a great man, and he will us undo/ 

‘ Go, throw it out quickly, without any fail. 

And if any one trouble you, Fll be your bail/ 


“ So they all went to work by the leave of their king, 
And dug up the quicksets, and filled the ditch in. 
Then up came Squire Cherry, pretending great power. 
And threw them in prison as strong as a tower. 


“ They hired a brave fiddler to play them along; 

And he played till they came to the prison so strong. 
They bade him play briskly, and spare not a string, 
For they were resolved to dance to the king. 


“ The king heard the news, and from prison away 
He brought them to Windsor, and caused them to stay: 
And to each of them he ten guineas did give, 

T' enable them better thereafter to live. 


“ A dinner was given, so at Berry's they dined. 

And pushed about briskly good ale, punch, and wine: 
They ate and they drank, and did merrily sing— 

‘ May Cherry be d —d, but God save the King/ " 


KING JAMES AND THE TINKER. 

Tradition has fixed the scene of the following ballad at 
Braywood-side. The inn alluded to is said to have been “ The 
Royal Blackbirds," in Blackbird-lane, and New Lodge (near 
the site of the Royal Kennels) the place where the tinker was 
knighted. 

“ And now to be brief, let's pass over the rest. 

Who seldom or never was given to jest, 


188 


LOCAL BALLADS. 


And come to King James, the first on the throne; 

A pleasanter monarch sure never was known. 

“ As he was a-chasing his fair fallow-deer, 

He dropt all his nobles, and of them he got clear. 

In search of new pleasure, away he did ride, 

Till he came to an alehouse, hard by a woodside. 

“ And there with a tinker he happened to meet, 

Whom in this kind sort he did lovingly greet; 

He said, f Honest fellow, what hast thou in thy jug, 
Which under thy arm thou so blithely dost hug?' 

“ c In truth/ said the tinker, ‘ ’tis nappy brown ale, 

And to drink unto thee, good faith, Til not fail. 

What though thy jacket looks gallant and fine, 

I hope that my twopence as good is as thine.’ 

“ ‘ Nay, now by my soul, man, the truth thou hast spoke/ 
Then straight with the tinker he sat down to joke, 

He call’d for his pitcher, the tinker another, 

And so they fell to it, like brother and brother. 

“ Whilst drinking, the king was pleased to say, 

‘ What news, honest fellow, come, tell me, I pray ?’ 
f There’s nothing of news, the which I do hear. 

But the king is a-hunting his fair fallow-deer. 

“ ‘ And truly I wish I so happy may be. 

That whilst he is hunting, the king I might see. 

For, though I have travelled the land many ways, 

I ne’er saw the king, sir, in all my whole days.’ 

“ The king with a hearty brisk laughter replied, 
c I tell thee, good fellow, if thou canst but ride. 

Thou shalt get up behind me, and thee I will bring 
Into the royal presence of James our king.’ 

“ ( Perhaps,’ said the tinker, ( his lords will be drest 
So fine that I shall not know him from the rest.’ 

‘ I tell thee, good fellow, when thou dost come there. 
The king will be covered, his nobles all bare.’ 

“ Then up got the tinker, and likewise his sack. 

His old leather budget and tools at his back; 

And when they came to the merry green wood. 

The nobles came round them and bareheaded stood. 


ADDENDA. 


189 


“ The tinker then seeing so many appear, 

Immediately whisper’d the king in the ear, 
f Since they are all clothed so gallant and gay, 

Now which is the king, sir, come tell me, I pray?’ 

“ The king to the tinker then made this reply, 

‘ By my soul, man, I think it must be you or I; 

The rest are uncovered, you see, all around 
This said, with the budget he fell to the ground, 

“ Like one that was frightened quite out of his wits; 
Then upon his knees he instantly gets, 

Beseeching for mercy. The king to him said, 

‘ Thou art a good fellow, so be not afraid. 

“ Come, tell me thy name?’ f It is John of the Yale, 
A mender of kettles, and a lover of good ale.’ 
f Then rise up, Sir John, I will honour thee here. 
And create thee a knight of five hundred a year.’ 

“ This was a good thing for the tinker, indeed; 

Then unto the court he was sent for with speed, . 
Where great store of pleasure and pastime was seen. 
In the royal presence of both king and queen.” 


glti&en&a* 

The following Monuments are on the East Wall of St. Nicholas’s 
Chapel. (See p. 46):— 

“In memory of the Bev d Edward Townshend, A.M., 
Hector of Henley-on-Thames, and' 33 years resident Vicar of 
this parish, only son of the Hon ble and Bev d Edward Towns¬ 
hend, Dean of Norwich. He departed in peace, July 24, 
1822, glorifying God. Aged 63. 

[Text—Philippians iv. 8, 9.] 

This tablet is erected by his parishioners and friends, in token 
of affectionate respect towards their beloved friend and pastor.” 

[This monument was brought here from the south side 
of the chancel.] 



190 


ADDENDA. 


“To the memory of James Hayes and Jane Croxton, of 
Holyport, in this parish, who were married ^‘iLMarch, 1750. 
She died 17 Sep. 1780, aged 60, leaving three sons and two 
daughters. He died 9 September, 1800, aged 85^ 


“In memory of Ann, wife of Richard Jackson, D.D., who 
died June 24 th , 1772, aged 54.” 


Bertbatfon of 1fie Name “23rap.” 

“ f Bray/ a word which either begins or ends the names of 
several places in France, is derived from f Braium/ which, in 
the ancient language of the Gauls, signifies ‘ Fuddle / c Marish / 
ora 1 Mont place? This we learn from the ancient MS. of 
the * Miracles of St. Bernard / Abbat of Clervaux, which is a 
confused collection of several pieces, where these words are to 
be found, f Castrum Braium, quod lutum interpretatur/ in 
speaking of Bray upon Seine, in the diocese of Sens, in a 
marshy place. There is also Bray upon Somme, in Picardy : 
Bray upon Epte, in Normandy, in the country of Yexin: and 
a Bray in Burgundy, upon the Armanson, near Semur, in the 
territory of Alise. Amongst the places in France whose 
names end in Bray, these are the chief:—Gui bray, in Nor¬ 
mandy, near Falaise; Vau bray, in the neighbourhood of 
Langres; VoWxmbray, in the diocese of Laon; Tinch zbray, in 
Perche; all which places have taken their names from the wet 
and marshy nature of the ground whereon they are situated.” 
— Adr . Valois. Jer. Collier's Large Dictionary, 1688. 




A. 


INDEX. 


Abercorne, 60 
Abingdon, 1, 36, 125, 159 
Acroste Gate, 119 
Adam, 158 
Adams, 129 

Address to the Queen, 156 
Akerman tenure, 7 
Alaunodunum, 135, 151 
Aid worth, 173 
Alfeede, 160, 161 
Alfey, 158 

Alfonsius, son of Edward I., 84 
Alice’s, 174 
Allen, 59 

All Saints’ Chapel, 48, 105, 106 
Almaricus, 3 
Alms of the King, 69 
Alphey’s farm, 132, 158 
Altar slab, 40 

Altwood, 8, 16, 41, 104, 114, 115, 
125, 132, 178 
Amand, St., 115 
Amersden, 71 
Amery, 85 
Ammerden, 81 
Amyce, 126 
Anbury, 83 
Andrewe, 119 
Andrewes, 40 
Anjou, Margaret of, 115 
Annesley, 140, 144 
Antiquities, 130, 149, 151, 152 
Aprise, 119 
Apuldorefield, 101 
Arbour Bridge, 131, 152 
Argyle, Duke of, 132 
Arnold, 133 
Ashenbeanecroft, 130 
Ashmore, 170 
Asper, 99 
Assart rents, 18 
Astcroft, 113 


Atlee, 143 
Athelyng, 114 
Athlone, 92 
Atkins, 60 
Atkinson, 144 
Atte Hatch, 95 
„ Lude, 37, 61 
„ More, 68, 73, 94, 123, 125 
,, Water, 8 
Atwater, 56 
Austen, 64 

B. 

Babham, 37, 95, 120, 142 
Babham End, 79, 80 
Bacon, 41 
Baggesite, 109 
Baker, 107, 147 
Baldwyne, 8, 16, 20, 96 
Ballads, local, 185 
Banes, 71 
Bankes, 70, 71 
Baret, 73 
Barnard, 124 
Barnard’s Plot, 177 
Barnes, 40 
Barnett, 170 
Baroun, 63 
Baretts, 39, 127 
Bartlett, 173, 174 
Baskerville, 77 
Basonbury, 151 
Bassett, 21, 167 
Batlyngmed, 153 
Bawdwyn’s, 96, 131 
Bayning, 103 
Beadle, 11 
Bear Inn, 144 
Beauchamp, 115 
Becher, 42 
Beckingham, 89 
Beckley, 14, 19, 49, 50, 55 
Bedmead, 7, 75, 82 
Belen, 7, 128 




192 


INDEX. 


Bennett, 140 
Berkley, 59, 107, 145 
Bernard, 84 
Berney, 163 
Bettinghurst, 70 
Beuval, 43 
Bever, 137 
Bibracte, 149 
Bidleson, 50 
Bigham, 161 
Billingbear, 3 
Bine, 3 

Binfield, 49, 102, 104, 111, 113, 162 
Binfield, N. 15 
Bird, 44 

Bisham, or Bustlesham, 37, 61, 96, 
125, 160, 161, 163 
Bisham, Templars of, 2, 125 
Bishopp, 10, 13, 19, 75, 111, 129,130 
Bishop’s, 129 
Blackbirds, 187 
Blagrave, 97 
Blakemore, 146 
Blay, 170 
Blower, 138 
Boat tolls, 7, 128 
Bodlespole, 23, 98 
Bodley, 122 
Body, 102 
Bokhurst, 63 
Boothe, 41 
Boteler, 63 
Botelers, 131 
Boucher, 183 
Boughton, 59 
Boult, 143, 169, 172, 173 
Boundary, parish, 11 
Bournhames Eyte, 79 
Bourne, the, 81, 75 
Bourn Bridge, 92, 175 
Bourns Plot, 177 
Bowyer, 16, 44, 60, 101 
Boyce, 16 
Boylett, 90 
Boyndon, 61, 132 
Boyn Hill, 126, 132, 134, 177 
Bradele, 112, 158 
Braden brugg, 23 
Brakel, 3 
Brambel Vere, 75 
Bramylton, 133 
Bray, 20 

,, Church, 26, 116, 160, 163 
„ Bells, 117, 118 
„ Constable, 156 
,, Court Rolls, extracts from, 159 
,, Derivation of name, 190 
„ Family, 6, 72, 94,102, 121, 122 
,, Manor, 1, 8, 9 


Bray School, 43, 64 
,, Slade Way, 95, 114 
,, tenants in, 16 
„ Wood, 156 

„ Wood-side, 73, 171, 173, 174, 
187 

Braywick, 82, 124, 133, 151 
„ Bridges, 83, 119 
,, Grove, 60, 82, 124 

,, Lodge, 82 

,, Mead, 82 

,, School, 83 

Braybest, 113 
Brice, 5, 124, 139 
Brick Bridge, 81, 186 
Brid, 5, 37, 44, 63, 125, 139 
Bridge Acre, 84 
Bridgeman, 100 
Bridges-Parish, 9 
Briginshaw, 103 
Broadreading, 41 
Brocas, 5, 34, 101, 162, 163, 164 
Broc wicks, 151 
Broke, 98 
Bromhall, 3, 160 
Bromeshull, 103, 104 
Broo.kcroft, 65 
Brook’s, 97 
Brook vere, 126 
Browms, 39, 127 

Brown, 6, 37, 44, 59, 124, 133, 177 

Browning, 15, 111 

Brownings, 111 

Brownsopp, 36, 85, 96 

Brunei, 80 

Brweres, 19 

Budde, 85, 91 

Budd’s, 97, 98 

,, Barnys, 98, 99 
,, Lane, 93 
Builder’s Well, 153 
Bukland, 144 
Bulkeley, 107 
Bullok, 127, 130,158 
Bullock’s, 39, 127, 129, 130' 

,, Hatch, 71, 146 
Bull Inn, 144 
Bull, Rector’s, 9 
Bulstrode, 115, 120 
Burghfield, 43 
Burgos, 18 

Burnham, 159, 160, 161 
Burton, 159 
Bury Pits, 153 
Butler, 174 
Butterfield, 143 

C. 

Canon Hill, 54, 71, 82 





INDEX. 


193 


Capon, 8 
Carlton, 60 

Carswell, 22, 23, 64, 59 
Carter’s Field, 151 
Caryngton, 96 
Casse, 79 
Castilmau, 129 
Cater, 74 

Caunceler, 98, 99, 109 
Causton, 48 
Caversham, 146 
Cayage, or boat tolls, 8 
Chadwick, 80 
Challoner, 41 
Chambour, 62 
Chapman, 84 
Charities, account of, 164 
Charles, King, 37, 89, 146 
Chauntry, Bray, 60 
Chauntry House, 73, 114 
Chaunter’s, 111 

Cherry, 39, 43, 60, 64, 67, 186 

Chiffinch, 90 

Chilbalton, 58, 113 

Childers, 137 

Chuffs, 91, 92 

Church, Bray, 26 

Church, 132. 

Cifrewast (see Gy and Sy) 
•Cirencester, 2, 3, 58, 69, 71, 160, 161, 
163 

Clark, 28, 50, 66, 84, 130, 143 

Clarkes, 84 

Clavering’s, 101 

Clayton, 171, 176 

Clenhurst, 104, 113 

Clerke, 38, 84 

Clerks, list of, 62 

Clevards, 74 

Cleves, Anne of, 126 

Clewer, 9, 63, 78, 102, 161, 162 

Cock, 171, 174 

Cockmarsh, 161 

Coins, ancient, 153 

Coke, 119 

Cokedonsee, 114 

Cold'Harbour, 151 

Coleraine, 45, 46 

Cole, 107, 173 

Collins, 81 

Colnbrook, 136 

Colney, 163 

Coly, 6 

Colyngborne, 125 
Commons, 9, 12 
Comyn, 40 

Coney, 57, 66, 68, 82, 124 
Conryk, 159 
Cook, 63, 77, 119 


Cookham, 3, 45, 58, 59, 61, 63, 102, 
106, 112, 113, 114, 115, 121, 122, 
123, 125, 126, 135, 138, 139, 140, 
151, 158, 161, 162, 163, 164 
Cookham Bey, 126 
Coombs, 171 
Cooper, 143 
Copland, 102 
Copping, 77 
Cornwall, 162 
Cornwallis, 60 
Cotes, 73 

Coteres, 39, 42, 127, 131, 159 

Cottens, 18 

Court House, 10, 83 

Cove, 170 

Coventry, 36 

Cowclose, 41 

Cowlsey, 19 

Cox Green, 171, 176 

Cranshew, 27, 59 

Cremboum, 8, 159 

Cressewell, 68, 73, 86, 98 

Creswell’s manor, 86 

Cricket matches, 78, 79 

Crocher, 160 

Croisier, 4 

Crosseby, 58 

Croxton, 190 

Cruchfield, 2, 19, 23, 68, 74, 107, 109, 
159 

Cublesdon, 162 
Culverhouse piece, 97 
Curr, 8, 98 
Curr’s, 97, 98 
Cut, the, 81 
Cutter, 174 

Cyfrewast, 62, 158, 163 (see Syfre- 
wast) 

D. 

Dalby, 100 . 

Dames, 70 
Darby, 108, 143 
Dartmouth, 60 
Darvill, 130 
Davis, 141, 142, 182 
Dawson, 138, 140 
Day, 55, 56, 115, 135 
De-la-Pole, 92 
Deller, 19 
Denford, 43 
Derson, 164, 165 
Dickson, 92 
Dittone, 78, 86 
Dodwell, 43 

Domesday account of Bray, 1 
Dony, 41 

Down Place, 46, 81, 130 


O 





194 


/INDEX. 


Dray, 59 
Drummond, 169 
Dungells, 19 

Dunmead, 62, 82, 86, 130, 152 
Dust family, 97 
Dydworth, 63, 104 
Dyer, 36, 59, 98 

E. 

Eales, 174 
East, 174 
East Hatch, 85 
„ Hay, 152, 159 
East-moor Hill, 141 
Ecclesiastics, list of, 160 
Edmund, King, 1 
Eedes, 90 
Egham, 124 
Eighth, 126 
Eldeloke, 133 
Eles, 97 
Elias, 61 
Elington, 135 
Elinore, 62 
Eliots, 84 

Elizabeth, Q., 35, 37, 38, 89 
Elyster, 23 
Emblin, 143 
Emerson, 140 
Englefield, 107 
Ereburgfeld, 131, 152 
Erleland, 114 
Erneis, 39 
Eton, 124 

Eton College, 17, 140 
Evans, 98 
Ever, 58 
Everndon, 132 
Everslee, 103, 104 
Ewysts, 39, 97, 99 
Excester, 4 
Expence, 78 
Eyst, 68, 73, 99, 174. 

F. 

Fellows, 90 
Fenn, 81 
Fenton, 124 
Fermlegh, 2, 4 
Ffenwick, 71 
Ffetyplas, 114 
Ffifhide Lane, 104 
Ffrance, 63 
Ffranks, 90 

Fifield, 14, 102, 104, 141, 159 
,, Green, 9 
„ House, 35, 38, 126 
Finch, 27,115 
Fincher, 13, 177, 178 


Fish, 8 

Fisheries, 8, 81 

Fishmongers’ Company, 64, 74 
Fitzwarine, 158 
Folly, 174 
Folly John, 89, 127 
Ford, 90 
Fordlease, 62 
Forgmore, 126 
Forleys, 140 
Fortescue, 12, 38, 127 
Fouler or Fowler, 35, 42, 85, 99, 109, 
126, 129, 130, 132, 133, 158 
Foxle, 5, 33, 34, 58, 78, 103, 130, 
135 

Foxle Chapel, 33 
Foxleys, 8, 24, 34, 101 
Francis, a Negro, 83 
Fraunceis, 142, 144 
Freitmantell, 4 

French or Ffrensh, 63, 147, 158 
„ Tenement, 114 
Frith, 97, 113, 136, 147 
Fryth Close, 41 
„ Mead, 41 
,, Lane, 119 
Fuel allotment, 181 
Fuller, 88, 170 
Fuse, 2, 125 

G. 

Gadbridge, or Gatebridge, 74, 75, 
88, 96, 129 
Galfridus, 138 
Garmond, 131 
Garserthe, 6, 111 
Garstons, 71, 152 
Garston Eyott, 81 
Garston’s Mead, 82 
,, Dych, 120 
Gar way, 126 
Gaye, 92 
Gayer, 94, 95 
Gays, 123 
George III., 90, 95 
George Inn, 24 
Gernon, 59, 61, 121, 125, 161 
Gerstonshull, 120 
Glanvyll, 73 
Glenhurst, 74 
Glodeman, 128 

Gloucester, Humphry, Duke of, 5 
Goade, 24 

Goddard, 30, 74, 75, 88,89, 110,124, 
129, 165 
Gode, 19 
Godewood, 33 
Gomme, 170 
Gordon, 48, 113 




INDEX. 


195 


Goryng, 94 
Gosyndon, 86 
Grademere, 123 
Graves, 158 
Gregory, 137 
Greig, 139 
Grenedoune, 61 

Grenfell, 89, 108, 113, 115, 175, 177. 

Gresley, 134 

Greyhound Inn, 146 

Greystok, 87 

Groom, 171 

Gryminesdyche, 93, 94, 103 
Gutteridge, 171 
Gwyn, 89 
Gylemyn, 112 
Gyll, 6 

H. 

Haddon, 87 
Hagman, 103 
Hakker, 36, 144 
Hakker’s, 63 
Haldene, 4 
Haleshurst, 104 
Halle, 59 
Haleseleshull, 103 
Haman-reading, 18 
Hamerden Ash, 81 
Hamildon Lok, 7 
Hamilton, 60 
Hampslep, 125, 161 
Hamstede, 58 
Hanger, 45, 46 
Harbleton, 33 
Hareschet, 133 
Harford, 46, 132 
Harington, 39 
Harrietsham, 33, 77 
Harris, 85 
Harrison, 50 
Hartington, 130 
Hartwell, 140 
Harvey, 128 
Hatch, 8, 73 
Hatch Close, 131 
Hathome, 165 
Hawe, 23, 135 
Hawthorn, 9, 55, 110 

,, Legend of, 110 

„ Family, 10, 13, 14, 19, 

27, 111 

Hayes, 19, 48, 90, 92, 190 
Hayshill, 104 
Hayshull, 162 
Haythorpe, 130 
Hayward, 172, 173 
Hazlebere, 123 
Hazle Cottage, 92 


Headington, 91, 95, 171, 174 
Headneatsman, 4 
Headsilver, 8, 10, 18 
Hearne, 43, 55, 67, 174 
Hedestakeware, 158 
Heepreadings, 41 
Hemming, 161 
Henchman, 139 

Hendons, 24, 61, 114, 121, 122. 

,, Mead, 75, 129 

,, Hatch, 123 

Hened, 98, 121 
Henley, 60, 189 
Henry IV., 80 
Hercy, 9, 19, 110, 173 
Hereward, 57, 58, 84, 161 
Hermit of Losfeld, 2 
Hermitage, 62, 163 
Hermit-reading, 63 
Hetherewe, 23 
Heyward, 84 
Heywood, 3, 9, 22, 23 
Hibbert, 57, 65, 66, 68, 77, 82, 151 
Hide, 110, 172, 175 
High Wycombe, 151 
HiUebrant, 55 
Hills-close, 41 
Hilly, 56 

Hokesham, 1, 159, 160 
Holden, 49, 64, 113 
Holderness, 131 
Hole, 138 
Holyport, 90, 121 

,, Copyholders, 115 
„ Field, 70, 75 

„ Green, 9, 90 

„ Lodge, 92 

,, School, 64, 65 

Hopton, 63 
Horme, 73 

Hosebund, 57, 137, 139, 142, 158 

Hound’s Lodge, 128 

Howland, 52 

Hubbard, 174 

Huckell, 37 

Huckle, 70 

Huddlestone, 132 

Hudson, 161 

Hull, 2 

Hulme, 133 

Humffreyes, 47 

Hundred Rolls, 2 

Hurley, 84, 125, 139, 140, 147, 161, 
163 

Hurlond, 199 
Hurmannis, 7 
Hurt, 121 
Hutchins, 131 
Hwite, 73 



196 


INDEX 


Hyde, 172, 175 
Hynden, 61, 121, 122 
Hyvyndene, 61, 121,122 

I. 

Inventories (Church), 29, 30 
Inwude, 162 

Ives Place, 47, 124, 132, 152 
Ive family, 124, 125 
Ives ( Montacute ), 163, 178 
Iwhurst, 103 

,, Family, 94 

J. 

Jackson, 190 

James, King, 37, 145 

Jarvell, 19 

Jealous Hill, 22 

Jenkyn Ewsts, 114, 127 

Jesus Hospital, 74 

John, King, 73 

John of Bray’s Place, 121, 122 

Johnson, 175 

Jonys or Jones, 85, 96, 131, 138 
Jordan, 3 
Joules, 6 
Jurdan, 97 

K» 

Keene, 55, 143 
Kelke, 42 
Kember, 74, 85 

Kembers, 85, 96, 127, 131, 179 

Kemble, 50 

Kempe, 144 

Kendall, 70 

Kennington, 161 

Kenylworth, 162 

Kew, 4 

Kilworth, N., 39 
King, 71 

King’s Grove, 18, 134 
„ Pits, 183 
Kingston, 156 
Kippinges, 97 
Knollis, 139 
Knox, 55 
Knyt, 8 

L. 

Lacy’s, 63 
Lady Chapel, 118 
Laken, 14, 32, 33, 115 
Lambden, 90 
Lane House, 21 
Lanermore, 126 # 

Langton, 140, 143 
Lantoon’s farm, 22 
Laud, 97, 179 
Laurel Cottage, 93 
Law, 72 


Lawrence, 14, 19, 30, 42, 124 

Leake, 112 

Lee, 5,17 

Leese, 159 

Legge, 44, 60 

Leigh, 60 

Leman, 74 

Lensamit, 8 

Lenton, 124 

Leonard, St., Chapel of, 62 

Leonard’s Hill, 152 

Lethepole, 8 

Levett, 60, 68, 83 

Lewis, 76 

Liany, 70 

Lichgate, 68 

Liguiere, 43 

Lilford, 55 

Lindores, 92 

Liston, 4 

Little, 40, 41, 178 

Littledale, 51 

Littlefield, 23 

Little Stroud, 97 

Litton, 32, 34, 41 

Lock, Thames, 81 

Loggins, 49, 94, 97, 101, 111, 124 

Lollebrok, 97, 106, 109 

London, 3, 73 

Longcroft, 130 

Longevity, 15 

Longmead, 75 

Look Place, 114 

Lord, 138 

Lord’s Lands, 74, 77, 109, 110 
Loryng, 63 

Losfeld, or Loffeld, 63 

Lovegrove, 176 

Lovel, 2, 109 

Lovelace, 17, 84 

Lawbrooks, 22, 71, 106, 146 

Lowing, 46 

Lucas Hospital, 164 

Lude, 37 

Luyde, 59 

Lynhames, 133 

M. 

Macfarlane, 56 

Maidenhead, 36, 114, 121, 135, 143 
„ Bridge, 8, 79, 119, 140 

„ Chapel, 58, 137 

„ Chauntry, 139 

„ Field, 126 

,, Guild, 142 

,, Races, 147 

„ Thicket, 146, 149, 152 
Malden, 82 
Maleweyn,87 





INDEX. 


197 


Manfeld, 16, 63, 81 

Manny, 5 

Manors, list of, 1 

March, 41, 115 

Marlborough, 79 

Martin, 30, 44, 70 

Martyn, 85, 102, 107, 127, 171, 173 

Mary, Queen, 35 

Marys, 33, 34 

Mason, 46, 47 

Mastall, 98 

Masthall, 36 

Masts, 41 

Mathany, 61, 121, 122 
Matthewe, 10 
Mauncell, 31 
Mauncey, 85, 96 
Maydewell, 103 
Medecroft, 121 
Meek, 89, 90 
Merbrook, 119 
Mereworth, 68 
Mereworth’s, 144 
Merrsh, 63 
Metingham, 138, 142 
Mickley, 81 
Middlecroft, 75 
Milecroft, 74, 75 
Milis, 73 
Mill, Bray, 73 
Millar, 138 
Millcroft, 84 
Millhey, 84 
Mitchell, 63 
Mogerydge, 59 
Molesworth, 123 
Mollem, 140 
Money Row Green, 9, 95 
Monkendon, 144 
Monkey Island, 79 
Montacute, 163, 178 
Monuments, 30, 189 
Moore, 107 

Moor’s, 24, 97,113,114,122, 123, 124 

Mordall, 144 

More, 37, 71, 124 

Morgan, 96, 131 

Morris dance, 29, 30 

Morton, 104 

Morys, 59 

Mosse, 37 

Muleward, 74 

Murrey, 15, 19, 103 

N. 

Nan’s Oak, 186 
Nanson, 115 
Naits, or Neits, 12, 84 
Nash, 130 


Nestie, 70, 75 
Neville, 142 
Newbury, 6 
Newcomen, 103 
Newel, 92 

New Lodge, 128, 156, 187 
Nicholas, St., Chapel of, 46 118 
Ninth Lands, 159 

Noak, or Noke, 14, 55, 70, 126, 159 
Norfolk, Duchess of, 114, 122, 124, 


Normanville, 68 

Norreys, Norres, or Norris, 5, 9, 27. 
35, 38, 39, 40, 71, 73, 89, 99, 113, 
114, 116, 119, 120, 121, 126, 127, 
130, 142, 148, 155, 164 
Norreys, will of Sir John, 116 
Norton, 107 
Nuvill, 109 

O. 


Oaklet, 131, 159 

,, Copyholders, 13 

,, Court, 128 

„ East, 9, 129 

„ Little, 7 

„ Marsh, 8 

„ Water, 9, 112 

„ Wharf, 128, 131 

Ockwells, 82, 113, 115, 119, 126 
Odeneye, 63 
Oke, 41 
Okeden, 41 
Oke Place, 115 

Oldfield, 9, 78, 104, 112, 152, 162 
Oldington, 63 
Old Reading, 75 
,, Windsor, 63 
Olmer, 84 
Onslow, 139 
Olyport, 121 
Orange, 80 

Orkney Hotel, 80, 155 
Orlebar, 53 
Ould Grove, 97 
Owen, 77 
Oxenbridge, 63 
Oxford University, 122 


P. 

Page, 14, 19, 36, 96, 111, 127, 128, 
131, 132, 165 
Paget, 140 
Paley Street, 22, 81 
Palmer, 27, 57, 42, 72, 99, 130, 159 
Palmere, 68, 73 
Palmeres, 39, 42, 114, 127 
Pankebourn, 61, 37 
Pannage, 8 



198 


INDEX 


Parish Boundary, 21 
,, Extent of, 21 
„ Perambulation, 24 
,, Population of, 21 
Parmenter, 173 
Parry, 36 
Parsonage, 9 

Partridge, 16, 19, 54,55, 71, 107, 108 
Pashe, 59 

Paul, 19, 45, 82, 83, 127, 179 

Paule, 53, 127 

Peacock Lane, 171, 177 

Pearson, 47 

Peck, 142 

Pecote, 149 

Peisley, 90 

Penyston, 180 

Perkwyn, 59 

Perkyns, 6 

Perryman, 13, 129, 168 
Pest House, 175 
Pettifer, 90 

Philibert, 2, 5, 74, 86, 87, 162 

Philiberts, 86 

Philippis, 59 

Phillimore, 51 

Pocock, 47, 126, 137 

Pokemere, 96, 97, 101 

Pole, 83 

Pole, De la, 115 

Pound Field, 157 

Powney, 10, 13, 17, 43, 115, 126, 
127, 129, 130, 131, 143, 146, 168, 
171 

Praed, 103 
Prattes Lane, 61 
Pratts, 39, 127 
Prescott, 144 
Preston, 109 
Pridis, 164 
Proctor, 92, 124 
Puckneys, 97 
Pulters, 62 
Punter, 99 
Punter’s, 62, 99 
Pury, 115, 142 
Puttenham, 96, 125, 161 
Pyk, 8, 61 

Q. 

Queen Leaze, 8, 10, 12, 18, 86 
,, Wharf, 63, 128, 131 , 

Quelm Mead, 75 
Quit-rents, 9, 13 

R. 

Raigersfield, 51 
Rainbald, 1, 58 
Raleigh, 128 


Ranee, 174 
Reading, 97, 117 
Rectory, 68, 69 
Reddiche, 61 
Reddington, 47, 48 
Rede, 88 

Redstone, 22, 173 
Reeve, 11, 92, 122 
Rekys, 102 
Remenham, 54 
Rey, 121 
Reylake, 8 
Reyner, 139 

Rigges, or Rugges, 99, 122, 159 
Rippinghall, 71 
Rippon, 102, 133 
Rithies, 97 
Rixman, 31, 38, 182 
Robin Hood’s Arbour, 150 
Robinson, 138 
Rockall, 183 
Roger, 58 
Rogers, 70, 90 
Rokele, 57, 68 
Roman Roads, 150 
„ Station, 152 
Rose, 143 

Ruddle Pool, 23, 79, 81, 98, 126 

Rugmer, 19 

Ruscombe, 119 

Rushenden, 84 

Ruston, 161 

Rutter’s, 19 

Rye-close, 75 

Rycote, 113 

S. 

Sachari, 58 

Saddok, 99, 100, 102, 161 
Saddok’s, 41, 100, 131 
Salisbury, 116 
Salter, 126 

Sandys, 8, 34, 72, 102, 103 
Sawyer, 12, 15, 18, 22, 66, 143, 176 
Say, 128 

Scherreve, 58, 61, 84, 112 
Scott’s Close, 41 
Sellifeare, 101 
Selwood, 170 
Seneschals, 3 
Sennermyn, 62 
Serocold, 92 
Sewy, 125 
Sexton, 175 
Shackel, 67 

Shaffelmoor, 81, 82, 85 
Shareshull, 161 
Sheer’s, 95, 131 
Shere, or Shire Family, 95 



INDEX. 


199 


Sherfield, 101 
Sherys, 131 
Shipcot Lane, 22 

Shobenhangre, 6, 68, 73, 74, 78, 84, 
109, 111 
Shobingdon, 115 

Shoppenhangers, 9, 43, 49, 55, 111, 
146 

Shortford, 7, 84, 162 

Shortford Moor, 85 

Shortlane Farm, 76 

Shottesbrook, 6, 64, 106, 161, 162 

Shyplake, 37, 68, 78, 96 

Sidney, or Sydney, 92, 175 

Skage, 129 

Skipputs, 102 

Slack, 46, 64, 82 

Slouttre, 61, 147 

Slye, 84 

Smith, 15, 16, 44, 67, 90, 124 

Smithe, 35 

Smyth, 73, 133 

Smythgate, 82 

Sonning, 97 

Southcote, 158 

Southey, 90 

Sparbury, 151 

Speeke, 134 

Spencers, 107, 114 

Spigemel, 138 

Spignel, 8 

Spratley, 17 

Spurrit, 171 

Squyer, 63, 73 

Stacey, 52 

Staines, 58, 103 

Stamary, 90 

Stanneye, 152 

Stanshall, 152 

Stanyland, 112 

Staper, 63 

Stapleton, 83 

Staverton, 62, 98, 100, 107, 124, 127, 
133, 146 

Staverton Lodge, 86, 151 
Steer, 146 
Ster, 8 

Steremanneslond, 7 
Stert Green, 9, 93, 170, 175 
Stephens, 92, 178, 126 
Stewards, 97 

St. George’s, Windsor, 87 
St. Stephen’s Light, 118 
Stoke, 114 
Stone, 33 
Strateshulle, 104 
Stroud, 39, 49, 96, 120 
,, Green, 9 
,, Tenants, 14 


Sugden, 110 
Sun Inn, 86 
Swan Inn, 145 
Syfrewast, 32, 102, 163 
Symbarbe, 155 
Symonds, 59 

T. 

Tadpool, 8, 82 
Tanner, 73 
Taplow, 60, 113, 115 
Targett, 174 
Tarsey, 170 

Taylor, 80, 86, 121, 143 
Tenures, 6 
Terry, 17, 133, 146 
Terry s, 114 
Tetteberi, 84, 161 

Thames, 79, 124, 126, 136, 162, 163 
Thatcham, 115 
Thomas, 85, 131 
Thomas’s, 131 
Thorn’s, 174 
Thuremberd, 4 
Tilehouse, 97 
Tinker and the King, 97 
Tithes, 71 
Tithings, 94 
Tittle Row, 149,177 
Tod, 127, 131 
Tonson, 131, 132, 138 
Toothache, 156 
Topolyf, 59 
Torry, 163 
Townsend, 141 
Townshend, 24, 60, 64, 189 
Touchen or Twychen, 9, 15, 22, 93, 
104, 110, 114, 174 
Trenchard, 123 
Trew, 132 
Triggs, 22 
Trussel, 106, 162 
Tryndle Acre, 139 
Tuke, 59 
Turbill, 45 
Turner, 171, 176 
Turry, 63 
Twests, 75 
Twyford, 136 
Tyelhurst, 79 

U. 

Ubecote, 8 
Uvedale, 106 

V. 

Vansittart, 92, 103, 137, 143 
Vere, 115 

Vicar of Bray, 20, 145, 155, 185 




200 INDEX. 


Vicars, List of, 58 
Vicarage, 72 
Villencourt, 43 
Villiers, 89 
Virginia Water, 151 
Viveacres, 133 

W. 

Wade, 2, 102, 161, 162 
Wades Lane, 61, 102, 104 
Waghorn, 49 
Wales, 119 
Walle, 61, 122 
Wallyngford, 68 
Walter, 132 
Waltham, Abbot of, 3 

,, Family, 4 

„ Hills, 22 

„ St. Lawrence, 106, 154, 161 

Walyngton, 6 
Wapelonds, 130 
Warbleton, 101, 102 
Ward, 56, 64, 79, 130 
Wardour, 85 
Warfield, 3, 161 
Wargrave, 3, 181 
Warwick, 115 
Water Oakley, 9, 112 
Watkins, 173 
Watlyng, 171 
Watts, 59, 62, 98 
Webb, 49, 113, 142, 176 
Webster, 62 
Weldon, 89, 142 
Welford, 178 
Wellande, 139 
Wenlock, 115, 120 
Werden, 53, 168 
Werklond Tenure, 6 
Wesleyan Chapel, 93, 146 
West, 74, 161 
Westcott, 10, 16, 165 
Westcotts, 21 
Westminster Abbey, 115 
Weston, 6, 131 
Westwoods, 63 
Wetersyngmed, 106 
Weyer, Van de, 128 
Weyland, 41 
Wharfage, 8 
Wheatly, 179 
Whitbrook, 135, 161 
White, 31, 183 
„ Hand, 173 


THE 


White Horse Inn, 145 
,, House, 121 

„ Waltham, 9, 67, 76, 97, 100, 
102, 104, 161 

Whitfield, 6, 45, 51, 52, 56, 126, 
137, 138, 141, 178 
Whittock, 99 
Whyte, 7, 84 
Whytis, 62, 97, 99 
Wickmead, 70, 75 
Wilcox, 15, 19, 89, 165, 166 
Williams, 54, 67, 73, 89, 103, 126 
Willows, The, 130 
Wilson, 47, 50, 107, 126 
Winch, 10, 14, 16, 17, 19, 27, 28, 42, 
43, 47, 48, 49, 55, 90, 99, 112, 119, 
127, 129, 133, 145, 146 
Winckles, 131 
Winchecombe, 125 
Winder, 122, 130 
Windfall Wood, 8 
Windmill Field, 151 
„ Hill, 84 
Windows’ Memorial, 56 
Windsor, 3, 5, 36, 83, 122, 124, 161, 
162 

Windsor Forest, 113, 120, 122 
Winkfield, 35, 63, 161 
Withifeare, 101 
Wodehouse, 4 
Wodemancote, 58 
Wokingham, 164 
Wolveridge, 107 
Wood, 138 
Woodcroft, 75 

Woodall, or Woodwell, 18, 90, 168, 
173 

Woodhouse, 72, 81 
Woods, 12 

Woodward, 59, 70, 127 
Woodwards, 127, 131 
Woolley Green, 21, 23, 177 
Wormstone, 146 
Wrinckles, 96 
Wychin, 73 
Wydestrod, 120 
Wyke, 7 
Wykeham, 105 
Wynchecombe, 37, 61, 63 
Wyndounhull, 37, 61 

Y. 

Yattenden, 117, 119 


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